Murachs Beginning Java With Eclipse

Want to learn Java? This beginning book brings an exciting, new approach to Java instruction that eases the learning curve and uses the Eclipse IDE to make you productive as quickly as possible. In fact, in just 22 chapters, you'll grow from beginner to entry-level professional! Along the way, this book presents all of the critical skills that you need to move on to web or mobile development with Java. It presents object-oriented features like inheritance, interfaces, and polymorphism in a way that's both understandable and useful in the real world. It covers the most important features introduced in Java 8 such as lambda expressions and the new date/time API. It provides realistic sample applications that put these skills into context. It provides exercises that you can use to gain valuable hands-on experience. And it's all done in the distinctive Murach style that has been training professional programmers for over 40 years.

This book explains Java programming in five sections. Section 1 explains the core concepts and coding needed to create simple object-oriented applications. Sections 2, 3, and 4 expand core Java and OOP skills. Section 5 presents real world applications for the program.

Although Java is a difficult subject, it's not as difficult as other books make it seem. So the goal of our book is to cut through the confusion to teach you how to code object-oriented business programs in Java as quickly and easily as possible.7 ways our book works better,than any others you've tried,Get started right,Obvious as this sounds, most beginning Java books don't get you started off right&or fast. But author Andrea Steelman has psyched out what you need to know first, and how to build on that knowledge in manageable steps, without wasting your time. So by the end of chapter 2 in this book, you'll have installed Java on your system and you'll have coded and compiled your first program. And by the end of chapter 6, you'll be starting to design, code, test, and debug the kind of object-oriented Java applications that businesses rely on.Practical object-oriented examples,In our 25 years of experience, we've learned that it's the coding examples that determine the effectiveness of any programming course. Without them, you can't see the relationships between the objects, methods, events, classes, and Java code that a program requires. Yet most beginning Java books present toy applications that trivialize the complexities a professional developer has to deal with. In contrast, all the examples in our book are from real-world business applications that follow the principles of object-oriented programming.Frustration-free GUI guide,Figuring out how to create a GUI with other books can take you weeks, even though that's such a common programming requirement. But our book has you creating your first GUI from start to finish in a single chapter (chapter 11). Then, 4 more chapters show you how to enhance it and how to convert it to an applet.Go beyond the basics: JDBC and threads,If you're doing Java programming for a living, you'll need to work with databases and threads. This book gets you started by teaching you how to use JDBC for databases and how to use threads to optimize your applications' performance.Exercises insure your success,The exercises at the end of each chapter let you solidify your skills, so you'll feel confident about working on your own programs. And they all use the source code and data on the bound-in CD to give you a maximum amount of practice.Paired pages for quick knowledge,All the information is presented in user-friendly paired pages, with the essential details and coding examples on the right and the perspective on the left. You read less and learn more!Time-saving reference,Sure, you'll use the Java API documentation regularly once you know Java. But when you need to know how to do something in the first place&or to brush up on the details&the paired pages make this book the fastest way to get the answers.

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An exciting, new approach to Java instruction that includes the latest Java releases (1.3.1 and 1.4). In just twenty chapters, you grow from beginner to entry-level professional. Along the way, you learn how to develop GUIs with Swing components; how to work with files; how to use JDBC to work with databases; how to develop applets that are run from Internet browsers; how to work with threads; and much more. It's all there in the unique Murach style that has been training professional programmers for more than 25 years. Includes CD-Rom.

Provides information on using servlets and JavaServer p. to create Web applications that use the MVC pattern.