Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies (2nd Edition)

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Part I: Revving Up
The chapters in Part I prepare you for the overall programming experience. In these chapters, you find out what programming is all about and get your computer ready for writing and testing programs.

Part II: Writing Your Own Java Programs
This part covers the basic building blocks — the elements in any Java program, and in any program written using a Java-like language. In this part, you discover how to represent data, and how to get new values from existing values. The program examples are short, but cute.

Part III: Controlling the Flow
Part III has some of my favorite chapters. In these chapters, you make the computer navigate from one part of your program to another. Think of your program as a big mansion, with the computer moving from room to room. Sometimes the computer chooses between two or more hallways, and sometimes the computer revisits rooms. As a programmer, your job is to plan the computer’s rounds through the mansion. It’s great fun.

Part IV: Using Program Units
Have you ever solved a big problem by breaking it into smaller, more manageable pieces? That’s exactly what you do in Part IV of Beginning Programming With Java For Dummies 2nd Edition. You discover the best ways to break programming problems into pieces and to create solutions for the newly found pieces. You also find out how to use other people’s solutions. It feels like stealing, but it’s not. This part also contains a chapter about programming with windows, buttons, and other graphical items. If your mouse feels ignored by the examples in this book, read Chapter 20.

Part V: The Part of Tens
The Part of Tens is a little beginning programmer’s candy store. In the Part of Tens, you can find lists — lists of tips, resources, and all kinds of interesting goodies.

The author added an Appendix on this book’s web site to help you feel comfortable with Java’s documentation. The author can’t write programs without my Java programming documentation. In fact, no Java programmer can write programs without those all-important docs. These docs are in Web page format, so they’re easy to find and easy to navigate. But if you’re not used to all the terminology, the documentation can be overwhelming.

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