Trail: Learning the Java Language: Table of Contents

• Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
  • What Is an Object?
  • What Is a Class?
  • What Is Inheritance?
  • What Is an Interface?
  • What Is a Package?
  • Questions and Exercises: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
• Language Basics
  • Variables
    • Primitive Data Types
    • Arrays
    • Summary of Variables
  • Questions and Exercises: Variables
  • Operators
    • Assignment, Arithmetic, and Unary Operators
    • Equality, Relational, and Conditional Operators
    • Bitwise and Bit Shift Operators
    • Summary of Operators
  • Questions and Exercises: Operators
  • Expressions, Statements, and Blocks
  • Questions and Exercises: Expressions, Statements, and Blocks
  • Control Flow Statements
    • The if-then and if-then-else Statements
    • The switch Statement
    • The while and do-while Statements
    • The for Statement
    • Branching Statements
    • Summary of Control Flow Statements
  • Questions and Exercises: Control Flow Statements
• Classes and Objects
  • Classes
    • Declaring Classes
    • Declaring Member Variables
    • Defining Methods
    • Providing Constructors for Your Classes
    • Passing Information to a Method or a Constructor
  • Objects
    • Creating Objects
    • Using Objects
  • More on Classes
    • Returning a Value from a Method
    • Using the this Keyword
    • Controlling Access to Members of a Class
    • Understanding Instance and Class Members
    • Initializing Fields
    • Summary of Creating and Using Classes and Objects
  • Questions and Exercises: Classes
  • Questions and Exercises: Objects
  • Nested Classes
    • Inner Class Example
    • Summary of Nested Classes
  • Questions and Exercises: Nested Classes
  • Enum Types
  • Questions and Exercises: Enum Types
  • Annotations
  • Questions and Exercises: Annotations
• Interfaces and Inheritance
  • Interfaces
    • Defining an Interface
    • Implementing an Interface
    • Using an Interface as a Type
    • Rewriting Interfaces
    • Summary of Interfaces
  • Questions and Exercises: Interfaces
  • Inheritance
    • Overriding and Hiding Methods
    • Polymorphism
    • Hiding Fields
    • Using the Keyword super
    • Object as a Superclass
    • Writing Final Classes and Methods
    • Abstract Methods and Classes
    • Summary of Inheritance
  • Questions and Exercises: Inheritance
• Numbers and Strings
  • Numbers
    • The Numbers Classes
    • Formatting Numeric Print Output
    • Beyond Basic Arithmetic
    • Summary of Numbers
  • Questions and Exercises: Numbers
  • Characters
  • Strings
    • Converting Between Numbers and Strings
    • Manipulating Characters in a String
    • Comparing Strings and Portions of Strings
    • The StringBuilder Class
    • Summary of Characters and Strings
  • Questions and Exercises: Characters and Strings
• Generics
  • Introduction
  • Generic Types
  • Generic Methods and Constructors
  • Type Inference
  • Bounded Type Parameters
  • Subtyping
  • Wildcards
  • Type Erasure
  • Using Non-Reifiable Parameters with Varargs Methods
  • Summary of Generics
  • Questions and Exercises: Generics
• Packages
  • Creating and Using Packages
    • Creating a Package
    • Naming a Package
    • Using Package Members
    • Managing Source and Class Files
    • Summary of Creating and Using Packages
  • Questions and Exercises: Creating and Using Packages