Cay Horstmann s seventh edition of Java Concepts provides an approachable introduction to fundamental programming techniques and design skills, helping students master basic concepts and become competent coders. Major rewrites and an updated visual design make this student-friendly text even more engaging.

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Introduction to Objects and Classes Chapter 3. Fundamental Data Types Chapter 4. Decisions Chapter 5. Loops Chapter 6. Arrays and Array Lists Chapter 7. Designing Classes Chapter 8. Interfaces and Polymorphism Chapter 9. Inheritance Chapter 10. Input/Output and Exception Handling Chapter 11. Object-Oriented Design ===== Web Chapters  (Online only) ========= Chapter 12. Recursion Chapter 13. Sorting and Searching Chapter 14. The Java Collections Framework  ===== Appendices ========= Appendix A: The Basic Latin and Latin-1 Subsets of Unicode Appendix B: Java Operator Summary Appendix C: Java Reserved Word Summary Appendix D: The Java Library Appendix E: Java Syntax Summary (online) Appendix F: HTML Summary (online) Appendix G: Tool Summary (online) Appendix H: Javadoc Summary (online) Appendix I: Number Systems (online) Appendix J: Bit and Shift Operations (online) Appendix K: UML Summary (online) Appendix L: Java Language Coding Guidelines (online)