Simply Java Programming: An Application-Driven Tutorial Approach

Combining the Deitel™ signature LIVE-CODE™ Approach with a new Application-Driven™ methodology, this text uses a step-by-step tutorial approach to teach students the basics of programming with Java. It builds upon previously learned concepts, and introduces new programming features in each successive tutorial. This comprehensive introduction to Java covers GUI design, swing components, methods, classes, data types, control statements, arrays, object-oriented programming, strings and characters, sequential files, and more. It also includes higher-end topics such as database programming, multimedia and graphics, and Web applications development.

Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, Chairman of Deitel & Associates, Inc., has 42 years experience in the computing field, including extensive industry and academic experience. Dr. Deitel earned B.S. and M.S. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Boston University. He worked on the pioneering virtual-memory operating-systems projects at IBM and MIT that developed techniques now widely implemented in systems such as UNIX, Linux and Windows XP He has 20 years of college teaching experience and served as the Chairman of the Computer Science Department at Boston College before founding Deitel & Associates, Inc., with his son, Paul J. Deitel. He is the author or co-author of several dozen books and multimedia packages. With translations published in numerous foreign languages, Dr. Deitel's texts have earned international recognition. Dr. Deitel has delivered professional seminars to major corporations, government organizations and various branches of the military.

Paul J. Deitel, CEO and Chief Technical Officer of Deitel & Associates, Inc., is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, where he studied information technology. Through Deitel & Associates, Inc., he has delivered professional seminars to numerous industry and government clients and has lectured on C++ and Java for the Boston Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. He and his father, Dr. Harvey M. Deitel, are the world's best-selling Computer Science textbook authors.

Jeff A. Listfield is a Computer Science graduate of Harvard University. His coursework included classes in computer graphics, networks and computational theory and he has programming experience in several languages. Jeff has co-authored C# How to Program, C# A Programmer's Introduction and C# for Experienced Programmers, and contributed to Perl How to Program and Java How to Program, 5/e.

Cheryl H. Yaeger, Director of Microsoft Software Publications with Deitel & Associates, Inc., graduated from Boston University in three years with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science. Cheryl has co-authored various Deitel & Associates, Inc. publications, including C# How to Program, C#: A Programmer's Introduction, C# for Experienced Programmers and Visual Basic.NET for Experienced Programmers. Cheryl has also contributed to other Deitel & Associates publications including Perl How to Program, Wireless Internet and Mobile Business How to Program, Internet and World Wide Web How to Program, 2/e, Visual Basic.NET How to Program, 2/e and Simply Visual Basic.NET.

Su Zhang holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from McGill University. Her graduate research included modeling and simulation, real-time systems and Java technology. She worked on Java and Web-technologies-related projects prior to joining Deitel. She has contributed to several Deitel Publications including Advanced Java 2 Platform How to Program, Python How to Program, Java How to Program, 5/e and she co-authored Java Web Services for Experienced Programmers.