1. Objects and classes
2. Understanding class definitions
3. Object interaction
4. Grouping objects
5. Functional Processing of Collections (Advanced)
6. More-sophisticated behavior
7. Fixed-size collections – arrays
8. Designing classes
9. Well-behaved objects

1. Improving structure with inheritance
2. More about inheritance
3. Further abstraction techniques
4. Building graphical user interfaces
5. Handling errors
6. Designing applications
7. A case study

1. Working with a BlueJ project
2. Java data types
3. Operators
4. Java control structures
5. Running Java without BlueJ
6. Using the debugger
7. Unit unit-testing tools
8. Teamwork tools
9. Javadoc
10. Program style guide
11. Important library classes

• Repeated topics allow students to build a more advanced understanding of challenging concepts.
• Discussion of numerous programming projects and exercises present a goal and a problem, allowing your students to analyse the problem and determine its solution.
• Projects designed as open-ended problems allow further improvement as the student progresses.

• Hooks are used aspointers to raise a topic, allowing your students to explore it in further detail.
• Chapter Questions suggest discussion material related to the topic.
• Chapters progress with increasing complexity, beginning with introductory chapters, and continuing with more advanced content.

Introduces Java 8 in functional programming, the fastest adopted new Java language ever.

• The functional approach is integrated with previous editions’ “old-style” techniques, emphasizing that functional constructs are most prominent when working with collections of objects using the traditional approach of loops and explicit iteration, and reinforcing the importance of mastering both.
• Functionally oriented material is presented at strategic points throughout the text where it can relate to problems addressed by specific constructs.

• Chapters and sections covering new material are clearly marked as “advanced”, and structured in a manner that they can be safely skipped upon first reading.

• Chapter 5 presents the first advanced section (a section that can be skipped if time is short) and introduces functional programming constructs. The functional constructs present an alternative to the imperative collection processing discussed in Chapter 4. The same problems can be solved without these techniques, but functional constructs open some more elegant ways to achieve our goals. This chapter gives an introduction to the functional approach in general, and introduces a few of Java’s language constructs.
• Chapter 7 concentrates on one specific – but very special – type of collection: arrays. Arrays processing and the associated types of loops are discussed in detail.