Teach Yourself Programming with Java in 24 Hours

Computer programming is insanely difficult. It requires a four-year degree in computer science, thousands of dollars in computer hardware and software, a keen a...

As you learned during Hour 1, quot;Becoming a Programmer,quot; a computer program is a set of instructions that tell a computer what to do. These instructi...

Before you venture further into Java programming, it's worthwhile to learn more about the language and see what Java programmers are doing today. One of the reaso...

An important distinction to make in Java programming is where your program is supposed to be running. Some programs are intended to work on your...

In Hour 2, quot;Writing Your First Program,quot; you used a variable, a special storage place that is designed to hold information. The...

In the film The Piano, Holly Hunter portrays Ada, a young Scottish woman who marries badly. A mute since the age of six, Ada can only express herself ful...

Writing a computer program has been compared to telling a household robot what to do. You provide the computer a list of instructions, calle...

One of the more annoying punishments for schoolchildren is to make them write something over and over again on paper or a chalkboard. On The Simpsons...

No one benefited more from the development of the computer than Santa Claus. For centuries, humankind has put an immense burden on him to gather and p...

One of the more fearsome examples of jargon that you'll encounter during these 24 hours is object-oriented programming. This is a complicated term that de...

As you learned during last hour's introduction to object-oriented programming, an object is a way of organizing a program so that it has everythi...

This might be a surprise to you, but your Java objects are ideally suited for childbearing. When you create a program as an object—a set of attri...

Because of the popularity of Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh systems, computer users have come to expect certain things from their software. I...

When you begin designing graphical user interfaces for your Java programs, one obstacle you face is that your components can move around. Whenever a cont...

The graphical user interface you developed during the past two hours can run on its own without any changes. Buttons can be clicked, text fields filled with...

Creating a graphical user interface with Swing involves more than learning how to use the different interface components, layout managers, and even...

Now that Java has made the transition from a child prodigy to an established language, it is being used for all kinds of large-scale business softw...

No subject in this book is less popular than the one you're about to tackle: errors. Errors—the various bugs, blunders, typos, and other problems that...

A computer term that is used often to describe the hectic pace of daily life is multitasking, which means to do more than one thing at once—such as surfi...

There are numerous ways to represent data on a computer. You already have worked with one by creating objects—an object includes data in the form of variab...

The rise to prominence of Java in the mid-'90s coincided with another dramatic change in the development of computer software: the introduction of Exten...

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Graphics can be represented on a computer in several ways. One is to store the image using a file format that approximates what the graphic looks like. For exa...

Whether you are reading this book in 24 one-hour sessions or a day-long-bring-me-more-coffee-can't-feel-my-hand-are-you-going-to-finish-that-doughnut marathon, yo...

Every day, thousands of computer programs join millions of people on the Web, gathering and exchanging information over HTTP, the protocol that dr...