Starting Out with Java:From Control Structures through Objects with MyProgrammingLab: International Edition

Tony Gaddis (Autor)

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2012 | 5th edition
Pearson Education Limited
978-0-273-77449-5 (ISBN)

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In Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects, Gaddis covers procedural programming control structures and methods before introducing object-oriented programming. As with all Gaddis texts, clear and easy-to-read code listings, concise and practical real-world examples, and an abundance of exercises appear in every chapter.

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Chapter 1 Introduction to Computers and Java 1
1.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Why Program? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.3 Computer Systems: Hardware and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.4 Programming Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.5 What Is a Program Made of? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.6 The Programming Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
1.7 Object-Oriented Programming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Review Questions and Exercises 21
Programming Challenge 25

Chapter 2 Java Fundamentals 27
2.1 The Parts of a Java Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
2.2 The print and println Methods, and the Java API . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.3 Variables and Literals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
2.4 Primitive Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.5 Arithmetic Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
2.6 Combined Assignment Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
2.7 Conversion between Primitive Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
2.8 Creating Named Constants with final . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
2.9 The String Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
2.10 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
2.11 Comments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
2.12 Programming Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
2.13 Reading Keyboard Input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
2.14 Dialog Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
2.15 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Review Questions and Exercises 100
Programming Challenges 105

Chapter 3 Decision Structures 109
3.1 The if Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
3.2 The if-else Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
3.3 Nested if Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
3.4 The if-else-if Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
3.5 Logical Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
3.6 Comparing String Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
3.7 More about Variable Declaration and Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
3.8 The Conditional Operator (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
3.9 The switch Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
3.10 The System.out.printf Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
3.11 Creating Objects with the DecimalFormat Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
3.12 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Review Questions and Exercises 182
Programming Challenges 187

Chapter 4 Loops and Files 193
4.1 The Increment and Decrement Operators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
4.2 The while Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
4.3 Using the while Loop for Input Validation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
4.4 The do-while Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
4.5 The for Loop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
4.6 Running Totals and Sentinel Values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
4.7 Nested Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
4.8 The break and continue Statements (Optional) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
4.9 Deciding Which Loop to Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
4.10 Introduction to File Input and Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
4.11 Generating Random Numbers with the Random Class . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
4.12 Common Errors to Avoid 259
Review Questions and Exercises 260
Programming Challenges 266

Chapter 5 Methods 273
5.1 Introduction to Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
5.2 Passing Arguments to a Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
5.3 More about Local Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
5.4 Returning a Value from a Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
5.5 Problem Solving with Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
5.6 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
Review Questions and Exercises 311
Programming Challenges 316

Chapter 6 A First Look at Classes 323
6.1 Objects and Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
6.2 Writing a Simple Class, Step by Step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
6.3 Instance Fields and Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
6.4 Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
6.5 Passing Objects as Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 364
6.6 Overloading Methods and Constructors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
6.7 Scope of Instance Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 384
6.8 Packages and import Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 386
6.9 Focus on Object-Oriented Design: Finding the Classes
and Their Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 388
6.10 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 394
Review Questions and Exercises 395
Programming Challenges 400

Chapter 7 Arrays and the ArrayList Class 407
7.1 Introduction to Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 407
7.2 Processing Array Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417
7.3 Passing Arrays As Arguments to Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
7.4 Some Useful Array Algorithms and Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 430
7.5 Returning Arrays from Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443
7.6 String Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445
7.7 Arrays of Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448
7.8 The Sequential Search Algorithm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
7.9 Two-Dimensional Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 454
7.10 Arrays with Three or More Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466
7.11 The Selection Sort and the Binary Search Algorithms . . . . . . . . . . . . 467
7.12 Command-Line Arguments and Variable-Length Argument Lists . . . 472
7.13 The ArrayList Class. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476
7.14 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 485
Review Questions and Exercises 485
Programming Challenges 490

Chapter 8 A Second Look at Classes and Objects 497
8.1 Static Class Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 497
8.2 Passing Objects As Arguments to Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
8.3 Returning Objects from Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 507
8.4 The toString Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 509
8.5 Writing an equals Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 513
8.6 Methods That Copy Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 516
8.7 Aggregation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 519
8.8 The this Reference Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
8.9 Enumerated Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 535
8.10 Garbage Collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544
8.11 Focus on Object-Oriented Design: Class Collaboration . . . . . . . . . . . 546
8.12 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550
Review Questions and Exercises 551
Programming Challenges 555

Chapter 9 Text Processing and More about Wrapper Classes 561
9.1 Introduction to Wrapper Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561
9.2 Character Testing and Conversion with the Character Class . . . . . . . 562
9.3 More String Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570
9.4 The StringBuilder Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 584
9.5 Tokenizing Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595
9.6 Wrapper Classes for the Numeric Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603
9.7 Focus on Problem Solving: The TestScoreReader Class . . . . . . . . . . . 606
9.8 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 610
Review Questions and Exercises 610
Programming Challenges 614

Chapter 10 Inheritance 619
10.1 What Is Inheritance? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 619
10.2 Calling the Superclass Constructor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 632
10.3 Overriding Superclass Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640
10.4 Protected Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 649
10.5 Chains of Inheritance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 655
10.6 The Object Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 661
10.7 Polymorphism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 663
10.8 Abstract Classes and Abstract Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 668
10.9 Interfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 675
10.10 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 687
Review Questions and Exercises 688
Programming Challenges 693

Chapter 11 Exceptions and Advanced File I/O 699
11.1 Handling Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 699
11.2 Throwing Exceptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 723
11.3 Advanced Topics: Binary Files, Random Access Files,
and Object Serialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 729
11.4 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 746
Review Questions and Exercises 746
Programming Challenges 752

Chapter 12 A First Look at GUI Applications 755
12.1 Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 755
12.2 Creating Windows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 758
12.3 Layout Managers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 787
12.4 Radio Buttons and Check Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 804
12.5 Borders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 815
12.6 Focus on Problem Solving: Extending Classes from JPanel . . . . 818
12.7 Splash Screens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 830
12.8 Using Console Output to Debug a GUI Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . 831
12.9 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 836
Review Questions and Exercises 836
Programming Challenges 839

Chapter 13 Advanced GUI Applications 843
13.1 The Swing and AWT Class Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 843
13.2 Read-Only Text Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 844
13.3 Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 846
13.4 Combo Boxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862
13.5 Displaying Images in Labels and Buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 868
13.6 Mnemonics and Tool Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 874
13.7 File Choosers and Color Choosers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 876
13.8 Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 880
13.9 More about Text Components: Text Areas and Fonts . . . . . . . . . . . . 889
13.10 Sliders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 893
13.11 Look and Feel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 898
13.12 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900
Review Questions and Exercises 901
Programming Challenges 906

Chapter 14 Applets and More 911
14.1 Introduction to Applets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 911
14.2 A Brief Introduction to HTML . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913
14.3 Creating Applets with Swing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 922
14.4 Using AWT for Portability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 931
14.5 Drawing Shapes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 936
14.6 Handling Mouse Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 957
14.7 Timer Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 967
14.8 Playing Audio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 971
14.9 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 976
Review Questions and Exercises 976
Programming Challenges 982

Chapter 15 Recursion 985
15.1 Introduction to Recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 985
15.2 Solving Problems with Recursion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 988
15.3 Examples of Recursive Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 993
15.4 A Recursive Binary Search Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 999
15.5 The Towers of Hanoi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1002
15.6 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1007
Review Questions and Exercises 1007
Programming Challenges 1010

Chapter 16 Databases 1013
16.1 Introduction to Database Management Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013
16.2 Tables, Rows, and Columns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1019
16.3 Introduction to the SQL SELECT Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1022
16.4 Inserting Rows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044
16.5 Updating and Deleting Existing Rows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1048
16.6 Creating and Deleting Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1057
16.7 Creating a New Database with JDBC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1060
16.8 Scrollable Result Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1062
16.9 Result Set Metadata . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1063
16.10 Displaying Query Results in a JTable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1067
16.11 Relational Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1077
16.12 Advanced Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1099
16.13 Common Errors to Avoid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1101
Review Questions and Exercises 1101
Programming Challenges 1106
Java TM Quick Reference 1109
Index

Student CD-ROM:
Appendix A Getting Started with Alice
Appendix B The ASCII/Unicode Characters
Appendix C Operator Precedence and Associativity
Appendix D Java Key Words
Appendix E Installing the JDK and JDK Documentation
Appendix F Using the javadoc Utility
Appendix G More about the Math Class
Appendix H Packages
Appendix I Working with Records and Random Access Files
Appendix J More about JOptionPane Dialog Boxes
Appendix K Answers to Checkpoints
Appendix L Answers to Odd-Numbered Review Questions
Case Study 1 Calculating Sales Commission
Case Study 2 The Amortization Class
Case Study 3 The PinTester Class
Case Study 4 Parallel Arrays
Case Study 5 The FeetInches Class
Case Study 6 The SerialNumber Class
Case Study 7 A Simple Text Editor Application

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