KEY BENEFIT: The Deitels’ groundbreaking How to Program series offers unparalleled breadth and depth of object-oriented programming concepts and intermediate-level topics for further study. This revision is current with the Java SE 6 revisions that have occurred since the book was last published. The Late Objects Version delays coverage of class development until Chapter 8, presenting the control structures, methods and arrays material in a non-object-oriented, procedural programming context. KEY TOPICS: Introduction and Basic Java Programming; Control Statements: Part 1; Control Statements: Part 2; Methods and Introduction to Recursion; Arrays; Introduction to Strings and Files; Introduction to Classes and Objects; Classes and Objects: A Deeper Look; Object-Oriented Programming: Inheritance; Object-Oriented Programming: Polymorphism; Exception Handling; (Optional) ATM Case Study, Part 1: Object-Oriented Design with the UML; (Optional) ATM Case Study, Part 2: Implementing an Object-Oriented Design; GUI Components: Part 1; Graphics and Java 2D™; Applets and Java Web Start; Multimedia: Applets and Applications; GUI Components: Part 2; Strings, Characters and Regular Expressions; Files, Streams and Object Serialization; Recursion; Searching, Sorting and Big O; Generic Collections; Generics; Data Structures; Multithreading; Networking; Accessing Databases with JDBC; JavaServer Faces (JSF) Web Applications; Ajax-Enabled JSF Web Applications; JAX-WS Web Services. MARKET: A useful reference for programmers who need to brush up their Java skills.