Teach Yourself Java in Cafe in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)

Daniel I. Joshi, Sams Publishing

ISBN:1575211572, Edition: 1st, 1996-07-01

Price: $39.99

Teach Yourself

         CAFE   in 21Days

by Daniel I. Joshi
    Laura Lemay
    Charles L. Perkins

C  O  N  T  E  N  T  S

Introduction

WEEK 1  At a Glance

Day1  An Introduction to Java Programming

• What is Java?
  • What is JavaScript?
• Embedding a Java Applet on an HTML Page
  • Understanding Applets and Applications
• Java's Past, Present, and Future
• Why Learn Java?
  • Java is Platform-Independent
  • Java is Object-Oriented
  • Java is Robust
  • Java is Easier to Learn using IDEs
• Java IDEs
• Symantec Café
• Mixing Café with Java
  • Getting the Software
• Summary
• Q&A

Day2  Introducing Café

• Installing Café
  • System Requirements
  • Options on the Café Installation Options
  • Uninstalling Symantec Café
• The Café Desktop
  • Understanding the Café Desktop
  • Configuring Your Desktop
• Getting Started with Java
  • The Development Process
  • Using the ProjectExpress To Build a Project
  • Appletviewer
• Summary
• Q & A

Day3  Object-Oriented Programming and Java

• Thinking in Objects-An Analogy
  • Objects and Classes
• Behavior and Attributes
  • Attributes
  • Behavior
  • Creating a Class
• Inheritance, Interfaces, and Packages
  • Inheritance
  • Creating a Class Hierarchy
  • How Inheritance Works
  • Single and Multiple Inheritance
• Introduction to the Class Editor
• Introduction to the Hierarchy Editor
  • Interfaces and Packages
• Creating a Subclass
• Summary
• Q&A

Day4  Java Basics

• Statements and Expressions
• Variables and Data Types
  • Declaring Variables
  • Notes on Variable Names
  • Variable Types
  • Assigning Values to Variables
• Comments
• Literals
  • Number Literals
  • Boolean Literals
  • Character Literals
  • String Literals
• Expressions and Operators
  • Arithmetic
  • More About Assignment
  • Incrementing and Decrementing
  • Comparisons
  • Logical Operators
  • Bitwise Operators
  • Operator Precedence
• String Arithmetic
• Summary
• Q&A

Day5  Working with Objects

• Creating New Objects
  • Using new
  • What new Does
  • A Note on Memory Management
• Accessing and Setting Class and Instance Variables
  • Getting Values
  • Changing Values
  • Class Variables
• Calling Methods
  • Class Methods
• References to Objects
• Casting and Converting Objects and Primitive Types
  • Casting Primitive Types
  • Casting Objects
  • Converting Primitive Types to Objects and Vice Versa
• Odds and Ends
  • Comparing Objects
  • Determining the Class of an Object
• The Java Class Library
• Summary
• Q&A

Day6  Arrays, Conditionals, and Loops

• Arrays
  • Declaring Array Variables
  • Creating Array Objects
  • Accessing Array Elements
  • Changing Array Elements
  • Multidimensional Arrays
• Block Statements
• if Conditionals
  • The Conditional Operator
• switch Conditionals
• for Loops
• while and do Loops
  • while Loops
  • do…while Loops
• Breaking Out of Loops
  • Labeled Loops
• Summary
• Q&A

Day7  Creating Classes and Applications in Java

• Defining Classes
• Creating Instance and Class Variables
  • Defining Instance Variables
  • Constants
  • Class Variables
• Creating Methods
  • Defining Methods
  • The this Keyword
  • Variable Scope and Method Definitions
  • Passing Arguments to Methods
  • Class Methods
• Creating Java Applications
• Java Applications and Command-Line Arguments
  • Passing Arguments to Java Programs
  • Handling Arguments in Your Java Program
• Understanding Café Parsing Technology
  • More on the Class Editor
  • More on the Hierarchy Editor
• Summary
• Q&A

WEEK 2  At a Glance

Day8  More about Methods

• Creating Methods with the Same Name, Different Arguments
• Constructor Methods
  • Basic Constructors
  • Calling Another Constructor
  • Overloading Constructors
• Overriding Methods
• Creating Methods that Override Existing Methods
  • Calling the Original Method
  • Overriding Constructors
• Finalizer Methods
• Summary
• Q&A

Day9  Java Applet Basics

• How Applets and Applications Are Different
• Creating Applets
  • Major Applet Activities
• Introduction to the appexpress
  • Creating an Applet with the appexpress
  • A Simple Applet
• Including an Applet on a Web Page
  • The <APPLET> Tag
  • Testing the Result
  • Making Java Applets Available to the Web
• More About the <APPLET> Tag
  • ALIGN
  • HSPACE and VSPACE
  • CODE and CODEBASE
• Passing Parameters to Applets
• Summary
• Q&A

Day10  Graphics, Fonts, and Color

• The Graphics Class
  • The Graphics Coordinate System
• Drawing and Filling
  • Lines
  • Rectangles
  • Polygons
  • Ovals
  • Arc
  • A Simple Graphics Example
  • Copying and Clearing
• Text and Fonts
  • Creating Font Objects
  • Drawing Characters and Strings
  • Finding Out Information about a Font
• Color
• Using Color Objects
  • Testing and Setting the Current Colors
  • A Single Color Example
• Summary
• Q&A

Day11  Animation and Multithreading

• Creating Animation in Java
  • Painting and Repainting
  • Starting and Stopping an Applet's Execution
  • Putting It Together
• Retrieving and Using Images
  • Getting Images
  • Drawing Images
  • Modifying Images
• Creating Animation Using Images
• Sun's Animator Applet
• Threads: What They Are and Why You Need Them
• Thinking Multithreaded
• Creating and Using Threads
  • The Runnable Interface
• Thread Scheduling
  • Preemptive versus Nonpreemptive
  • The Problem with the Digital Clock Applet
  • Writing Applets with Threads
  • Fixing the Digital Clock
  • An Example: Neko
• Reducing Animation Flicker
  • Flicker and How to Avoid It
  • How to Override Update
  • Solution One: Don't Clear the Screen
  • Solution Two: Redraw Only What You Have To
• More About Flicker Double-Buffering
  • Creating Applets with Double-Buffering
  • An Example: Checkers Revisited
• The Thread Viewer
• The Problem with Parallelism
• Summary
• Q&A

Day12  Designing Front Ends with the Café Studio

• The Café Studio
• An awt Overview
• The Basic User Interface Components
  • Labels
  • Buttons
  • CheckBoxes
  • Radio Buttons
  • Choice Menus
  • Text Fields
• Panels and Layout
  • Layout Managers
• Nesting Panels and Components
• More UI Components
  • Text Areas
  • Scrolling Lists
  • Scroll Bars and Sliders
  • Canvases
• Summary
• Q&A

Day13  More on Front Ends with the Café Studio

• Windows, Menus, and Dialog Boxes
  • Frames
  • Menus
  • File Dialogs
• Managing Simple Events
• Mouse Clicks
  • mouseDown and mouseUp
  • The Spots Applet Example
• Mouse Movements
  • mouseDrag and mouseMove
  • mouseEnter and mouseExit
  • The Drawing Lines Example
• Keyboard Events
  • The keyDown and keyUp Methods
  • Default Keys
• Entering, Displaying, and Moving Characters: A Sample Applet
  • Testing for Modifier Keys
• The awt Event Handler
• Summary
• Q&A

Day14  Utilizing the Visual Debugger in Café

• Debugging a Project
  • Working with Errors in Java and Symantec Café
  • Understanding Error Messages in Java and Symantec Café
• Using Symantec Café's Debugging Tools
  • Breakpoints
  • The Data/Object Window
  • The Call Window
  • The Thread View Window
• What To Do in Symantec Café When You Need Help
  • The Café Tutorial
  • The Symantec Café Help Files
• Summary
• Q&A

WEEK 3  At a Glance

Day15  Java Database Connectivity

• Why Have the JDBC?
• What Is the JDBC?
• Understanding the JDBC Interfaces
  • Implications of Using the JDBC with Java Applets
  • Implications of Using the JDBC with Java Applications
• Introduction to the JDBC Classes
  • The DriverManager
  • The Connection Interface
  • The Statement Interface
  • The ResultSet Abstract Class
• An Example of Using the JDBC API
• Writing Your Own Driver Using the JDBC Driver API
• Summary
• Q&A

Day16  Networking and Other Tidbits

• Networking in Java
  • Creating Links Inside Applets
  • Opening Web Connections
  • openStream()
  • The URLConnection Class
  • Sockets
• Other Applet Hints
  • Using the showStatus() Method
  • Providing Applet Information
  • Communicating Among Applets
• Summary
• Q&A

Day17  Modifiers

• Method and Variable Access Control
  • The Four P's of Protection
  • The Conventions for Instance Variable Access
• Class Variables and Methods
• The final Modifier
  • final Classes
  • final Variables
  • final Methods
• abstract Methods and Classes
• Summary
• Q&A

Day18  Packages and Interfaces

• Packages
  • Programming in the Large
  • Programming in the Small
  • Hiding Classes
• Interfaces
  • Programming in the Large
  • Programming in the Small
• Summary
• Q&A

Day19  Exceptions

• Programming in the Large
• Programming in the Small
• The Limitations Placed on the Programmer
• The finally Clause
• Summary
• Q&A

Day20  Streams

• Input Streams
  • The abstract Class InputStream
  • ByteArrayInputStream
  • FileInputStream
  • FilterInputStream
  • PipedInputStream
  • SequenceInputStream
  • StringBufferInputStream
• Output Streams
  • The abstract Class OutputStream
  • ByteArrayOutputStrem
  • FileOutputStream
  • FilterOutputStream
  • PipedOutputStream
• Related Classes
• Summary
• Q&A

Day21  Under the Hood

• The Big Picture
  • Why It's a Powerful Vision
• The Java Virtual Machine
  • An Overview
  • The Fundamental Parts
  • The Constant Pool
  • Limitations
• Bytecodes in More Detail
  • The Bytecode Interpreter
  • The Just-in-Time Compiler
  • The java2c Translator
  • The Bytecodes Themselves
  • The _quick Bytecodes
• The .class File Format
• Method Signatures
• The Garbage Collector
  • The Problem
  • The Solution
  • Java's Parallel Garbage Collector
• The Security Story
  • Why You Should Worry
  • Why You Might Not Have To Worry About Java's Security Model
• Summary
• Q&A

appendixA  Language Summary

• Reserved Words
• Comments
• Literals
• Variable Declaration
• Variable Assignment
• Operators
• Objects
• Arrays
• Loops and Conditionals
• Class Definitions
• Method and Constructor Definitions
• Packages, Interfaces, and Importing
• Exceptions and Guarding

appendixB  Class Hierarchy diagrams

• About These Diagrams

appendixC  The Java Class Library

• java.lang
  • Interfaces
  • Classes
• java.util
  • Interfaces
  • Classes
• java.io
  • Interfaces
  • Classes
• java.net
  • Interfaces
  • Classes
• java.awt
  • Interfaces
  • Classes
• java.awt.image
  • Interfaces
  • Classes
• java.awt.peer
• java.applet
  • Interfaces
  • Classes

appendixD  How Java differs from C and C++

• Pointers
• Arrays
• Strings
• Memory Management
• Data Types
• Operators
• Control Flow
• Arguments
• Other Differences

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