Cay S. Horstmann is a Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at San Jose State University. He is an experienced professional programmer and was Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Preview Systems, Inc. He is also a consultant for major corporations, universities and organizations on C++, Java, Windows and Internet programming. Horstmann is the author of many successful professional and academic books, including Object Oriented Design and Patterns, Big Java, Big C++, and Computing Concepts with C++ Essentials (all with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), and Core Java (Sun Microsystems Press), with Gary Cornell.

Preface.Special Features.1 Introduction.2 Using Objects.3 Implementing Classes.4 Fundamental Data Types.5 Decisions.6 Iteration.7 Array Lists and Arrays.8 Designing Classes.9 Interfaces and Polymorphism.10 Inheritance.11 Input/Output and Exception Handling.12 Object-Oriented Design.13 Recursion.14 Sorting and Searching.15 An Introduction to Data Structures.Chapter 16. Advanced Data Structures (Advanced).Chapter 17. Generic Programming (Advanced).Chapter 18. Graphical User Interfaces. (Advanced).Appendix A Java Language Coding Guidelines.Appendix B The Basic Latin and Latin-1 Subsets of Unicode.Appendix C The Java LibraryAppendix D Java Syntax Summary.Appendix E Java Operator Summary.Appendix F Java Keyword Summary.Appendix G Metric Conversion Factors.Appendix H HTML Summary.Appendix I Tool Summary.Appendix J javadoc Summary.Appendix K Number Systems.Appendix L Bit and Shift Operations.Appendix M UML Summary.Glossary.Index.Illustration Credits.