Supplemental Presentations and Examples

• Basics:
  • Simplest Possible Application
  • A Simple, Object-Oriented Program
  • Variables, Datatypes, Object Creation, Object Method Invocation
• Arrays and ArrayLists:
  • Array Quick Reference
  • ArrayList Quick Reference
  • Comparison of Arrays and ArrayLists
• Repetition:
  • Practice: Array and ArrayList classes with methods to implement
  • Notes on Casting, For Loops, and While Loops
• The book collection project: BookProject.zip

Online Java References

• The Student Companion Site for Java Concepts 5e.
• The Java Tutorial -- Sun's online tutorial for Java 2 (also available as several books)
• Online documentation of all standard Java classes, including: Java 6.  Sun also provides other resources.

Program Style

• The Kalamazoo College Computer Science Program Style Guide and Documentation Standards.
• Templates that meet the documentation standards: a class template and a main class template.
• Vermeulen, The Elements of Java Style, Cambridge University Press, 2000.