What's new?
1. Swing is used for graphical output and input...right from the start. No more need for make-believe i/o classes
2. Inheritance expanded to a whole chapter
3. Coverage of exception handling expanded
4. NEW chapters on Data Structures and on Collections
5. Increased emphasis on program design
What's the same?
1. A wealth of 6 different types of exercises and assignments:
• Critical Thinking Exercises
• Debugging Exercises
• Skill-Builder Exercises
• Programming Exercises
• Program Modification Exercises
• Program design Exercises
2. Code examples are dissected so students can get character-by-character explanations from the book.
Supplements:
A source code disk is included in the book.
Instructor Materials:
• Test Bank by the author
• Complete solutions disk for professors (not just the answer to a programming project, but the actual program which yields the answer).
• Power Point slides.
• The author's supporting web site has errata and additional information for all of Gittleman's Java books.