Polyteknisk Boghandel

This introductory programming textbook integrates BlueJ with Java. It provides a thorough treatment of object-oriented principles.

NOTE: This TOC is as of 3/8/2008. This is subject to change between now and the book's publication date.

Part 1 FOUNDATIONS OF OBJECT ORIENTATION
Chapter 1 Objects and classes
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1 Objects and classes
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2 Creating objects
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3 Calling methods
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4 Parameters
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5 Data types
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6 Multiple instances
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7 State
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8 What is in an object?
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9 Object interaction
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10 Source code
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11 Another example
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12 Return values
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13 Objects as parameters
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14 Summary
Chapter 2 Understanding class definitions
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1 Ticket machines
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1 Exploring the behavior of a na ve ticket machine
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2 Examining a class definition
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3 Fields, constructors, and methods
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1 Fields
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2 Constructors
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4 Passing data via parameters
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5 Assignment
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6 Accessor methods
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7 Mutator methods
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8 Printing from methods
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9 Summary of the na ve ticket machine
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10 Reflecting on the design of the ticket machine
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11 Making choices: the conditional statement
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12 A further conditional-statement example
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13 Local variables
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14 Fields, parameters, and local variables
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15 Summary of the better ticket machine
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16 Self-review exercises
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17 Reviewing a familiar example
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18 Summary
Chapter 3 Object interaction
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1 The clock example
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2 Abstraction and modularization
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3 Abstraction in software
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4 Modularization in the clock example
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5 Implementing the clock display
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6 Class diagrams versus object diagrams
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7 Primitive types and object types
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8 The ClockDisplay source code
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1 Class NumberDisplay
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2 String concatenation
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3 The modulo operator
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4 Class ClockDisplay
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9 Objects creating objects
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10 Multiple constructors
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11 Method calls
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1 Internal method calls
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2 External method calls
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3 Summary of the clock display
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12 Another example of object interaction
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1 The mail system example
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2 The this keyword
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13 Using a debugger
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1 Setting breakpoints
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2 Single stepping
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3 Stepping into methods
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14 Method calling revisited
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15 Summary
Chapter 4 Grouping objects
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1 Grouping objects in flexible-size collections
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2 A personal notebook
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3 A first look at library classes
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1 An example of using a library
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4 Object structures with collections
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5 Generic classes
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6 Numbering within collections
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7 Removing an item from a collection
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8 Processing a whole collection
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1 The for-each loop
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2 The while loop
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3 Iterating over a collection
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4
Index access versus iterators
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9 Summary of the notebook example
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10 Another example: an auction system
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1 The Lot class
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2 The Auction class
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3 Anonymous objects
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4 Using collections
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11 Flexible collection summary
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12 Fixed-size collections
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1 A log-file analyzer
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2 Declaring array variables
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3 Creating array