ThinkinginJava,ThirdEdition

Preface Introduction 1: Introduction to Objects 2: Everything is an Object 3: Controlling Program Flow 4: Initialization & Cleanup 5: Hiding the Implementation 6: Reusing Classes 7: Polymorphism 8: Interfaces & Inner Classes 9: Error Handling with Exceptions 10: Detecting Types 11: Collections of Objects 12: The Java I/O System 13: Concurrency 14: Creating Windows & Applets 15: Discovering Problems 16: Analysis and Design A: Passing & Returning Objects B: Java Programming Guidelines C: Supplements D: Resources Index Preface I suggested to my brother Todd, who is making the leap from hardware into programming, that the next big revolution will be in genetic engineering. We’ll have microbes designed to make food, fuel, and plastic; they’ll clean up pollution and in general allow us to master the manipulation of the physical world for a fraction of what it costs now. I claimed that it would make the computer revolution look small in comparison. Then I realized I was making a mistake common to science fiction writers: getting lost in the technology (which is of course easy to do in science fiction). An experienced writer knows that the story......