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Designed to support an introductory programming course, Introduction to Java Programming and Data Structures, Brief Version  teaches you concepts of problem-solving and object-orientated programming using a fundamentals-first approach. As beginner programmers, you learn critical problem-solving techniques then move on to grasp the key concepts of object-oriented, GUI programming, advanced GUI and Web programming using JavaFX. This course approaches Java GUI programming using JavaFX, which has replaced Swing as the new GUI tool for developing cross-platform-rich Internet applications and is simpler to learn and use. The 11th edition has been completely revised to enhance clarity and presentation, and includes new and expanded content, examples, and exercises.

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Dr. Y. Daniel Liang earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Oklahoma in 1991, and an MS and BS in Computer Science from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, in 1986 and 1983. Prior to joining Armstrong, he was an associate professor in computer science at Purdue University in Fort Wayne, where he twice received the Excellence in Research award.

Dr. Liang was trained in theoretical computer science. He was active in graph algorithms from 1990 to 1995 and published more than ten papers in several established journals such as SIAM Journal on Computing, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Acta Informatics, and Information Processing Letters. Since 1996, he has devoted to writing texts and published more than thirty books with Prentice Hall. His popular computer science texts are widely adopted in the world.

Dr. Liang was elected a Java Champion in 2005 by Sun Microsystems and has given lectures on Java internationally.

1 Introduction to Computers, Programs, and Java

2 Elementary Programming

3 Selections

4 Mathematical Functions, Characters, and Strings

5 Loops

6 Methods

7 Single-Dimensional Arrays

8 Multidimensional Arrays

9 Objects and Classes

10 Object-Oriented Thinking

11 Inheritance and Polymorphism

12 Exception Handling and Text I/O

13 Abstract Classes and Interfaces

14 JavaFX Basics

15 Event-Driven Programming and Animations

16 JavaFX UI Controls and Multimedia

17 Binary I/O

18 Recursion

Appendixes

Appendix A   Java Keywords

Appendix B   The ASCII Character Set

Appendix C   Operator Precedence Chart

Appendix D   Java Modifiers

Appendix E   Special Floating-Point Values

Appendix F   Number Systems

Appendix G   Bitwise Operations

Appendix H   Regular Expressions

Appendix I   Enumerated Types