Praised for providing an engaging balance of complete examples and explanatory discussion, Absolute Java, is the most comprehensive and accessible book available to both the novice and intermediate Java programming reader. Best-selling author Walt Savitch delivers concepts and techniques in a clear and concise style using understandable language and code enhanced by a suite of pedagogical tools.

Getting Started; Console Input and Output; Flow of Control; Defining Classes; Defining Classes II; Arrays; Inheritance; Polymorphism and Abstract Classes; Exception Handling; File I/O; Recursion; UML and Patterns; Interfaces and Inner Classes; Generics and ArrayList Class; Linked Data Structures; Collections and Iterators; Swing I; Applets; Swing II; Java Never Ends.

For all readers interested in the Java programming language.