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Training and Tutorials: Java Programming Language Fundamentals

 

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Before you create an application or applet, you need to learn the basics of the Java programming language. These tutorials teach the essential concepts you need to know for builiding applications and applets.

The Java Tutorial
A practical guide for programmers with hundreds of complete, working examples and dozens of trails . groups of lessons on a particular subject.

August 2003
Building an Application, Part 5 by Dana Nourie, Release 1.3
Part 5 of this tutorial shows you how to separate interface from implementation, create a DiveRecord object., serialize objects and write them to files, read them back into the GUI, and more.

June 2002
Building an Application, Part 4 by Dana Nourie, Release 1.3
Part 4 of this tutorial shows you how to prepare for and handle errors, read from and write to files, use the Box layout, use the JFileChooser class for naming new files, and more.

January 2002
Building an Application, Part 3 by Dana Nourie, Release 1.3
Part 3 shows you how to retrieve and display user input, understand encapsulation and access control, arrange nested layouts, understand event handling basics, and use inner classes.

January 2002
Building an Application, Part 2 by Dana Nourie, Release 1.3
Part 2 of this tutorial series introduces inheritance, image and text objects, and how to arrange those objects using a layout manager.Learn how to build graphical user interfaces, display Java widgets and make them respond to physical events, and how to create windows and menus for standalone applications.

February 2001
jGuru: Language Essentials: Introduction by jGuru
This course introduces the Java programming language, and demonstrates the syntax of the language in an object-oriented framework, along with standard programming practices such as defining instance methods, working with the built-in data types, creating user-defined data types, and working with reference variables.

July 1999
Essentials of the Java Programming Language, Part 2 by Monica Pawlan
This series of lessons builds on the material presented in Java Programming Language Basics, Part 1, which introduced applications, applets, and servlets; simple file and database access operations; and remote method invocation (RMI).

March 1999
Essentials of the Java Programming Language, Part 1 by Monica Pawlan If you are new to programming in the Java language, have some experience with other languages, and are familiar with things like displaying text or graphics or performing simple calculations, this tutorial could be for you. It walks through how to use the Java 2 Platform software to create and run three common types of programs written for the Java platform.applications, applets, and servlets.

November 1999
Advanced Programming for the Java 2 Platform by Calvin Austin and Monica Pawlan
To help you navigate the Java APIs and fast-track your project development time, this book includes the design, development, test, and deployment phases for an enterprise-worthy auction application.