Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days (5th Edition)

Welcome to the web site for the book Teach Yourself Java 6 in 21 Days (5th Edition) by Rogers Cadenhead and Laura Lemay. Fully updated for Java 6, the book teaches Java programming to beginners and experienced programmers, with an emphasis on how Java is being used today in new areas such as Java servlets, XML-RPC web services, and XML processing.

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Table of Contents

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Week 1: The Java Language

Day 1: Getting Started with Java
Day 2: The ABCs of Programming
Day 3: Working with Objects
Day 4: Lists, Logic, and Loops
Day 5: Creating Classes and Methods
Day 6: Packages, Interfaces, and Other Class Features
Day 7: Exceptions, Assertions, and Threads

Week 2 The Java Class Library

Day 8: Data Structures
Day 9: Working with Swing
Day 10: Building a Swing Interface
Day 11: Arranging Components on a User Interface
Day 12: Responding to User Input
Day 13: Using Color, Fonts, and Graphics
Day 14: Developing Swing Applications

Week 3 Java Programming

Day 15: Working with Input and Output
Day 16: Serializing and Examining Objects
Day 17: Communicating Across the Internet
Day 18: Accessing Databases with JDBC
Day 19: Reading and Writing RSS Feeds
Day 20: XML Web Services
Day 21: Writing Java Servlets and Java Server Pages

Appendixes

Appendix A: Using the Java Development Kit
Appendix B: Programming with the Java Development Kit
Appendix C: This Book's Web Site
Appendix D: Choosing Java (on the CD)
Appendix E: Writing Java Applets (on the CD)
Appendix F: Regular Expressions (on the CD)
Appendix G: Where to Go from Here: Java Resources (on the CD)

What's New

Most recent additions to this site:

Day 2: Minus signs missing from Table 2.1 (02-13-2009)
Day 10: Typo in Listing 10.4 (the ProgressMonitor application) (02-13-2009)
Day 2: Several comments in the Weather application were incorrect (02-13-2009)
Day 4: Correction involving the use of the array variable length (02-13-2009)
Day 5: A word was omitted from the first Q&A in the chapter (02-12-2009)
Day 14: Sun's Java Web Start Demos have moved (02-12-2009)
Day 20: Download Apache XML-RPC 2.0 (01-07-2009)
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