Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ, Global Edition

About our authors David J. Barnes is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Kent, in Canterbury, England, and mainly teaches introductory, object-oriented Programming at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition to computing education and his rich, practical experience in a wide range of programming languages, his main research also includes the area of Software Engineering. Michael Kölling is a Professor in the Department of Informatics at King's College London, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Sydney University and has worked in Australia, Denmark, and the UK. He is the lead developer of BlueJ and Greenfoot, two educational programming environments, and his research areas of interest include object-oriented systems, programming languages, software tools, and computing education.

• 1. Objects and classes  2. Understanding class definitions  3. Object interaction  4. Grouping objects  5. Functional processing of collections6. More-sophisticated behavior          7. Fixed-size collections: arrays  8. Designing classes  9. Well-behaved objects 10. Working in teams11. Recursion  12. Improving structure with inheritance13. More about inheritance 14. Further abstraction techniques 15. Data-oriented classes  16. A brief history of Java  17. Building graphical user interfaces 18. Handling errors 19. Designing applications 20. A case studyAppendices   A. Working with a BlueJ project B. Java data types               C. Operators                 D. Java control structures  E. Running Java without BlueJ  F. Using the debugger G. JUnit unit-testing tools  H. Teamwork tools  I. Javadoc  J. Program style guide  K. Important library classesL. Concept glossary