Yet another Java book.

Nor it is the breaking news, neither we need a break from learning traditional way. There are plenty of good books on Java, written in a traditional way.

However, this book breaks some typical patterns of any other Java book written so far.

It will not exhibit the same characteristics that start with a distinctive introduction to Java, principles of object oriented programming, Values and Data types, Operators, Input in Java, Library methods, etc. Instead it presents problems for learners to solve and learn from them.

This book will empower computer science and programming students to build their applications in Java. It is for the first time that a book with a "problems-solutions-explanations" approach will help you develop logical and analytical thinking so that you can easily solve interactive problems, not only in Java, but also in any programming language.

Why?

Because, we feel a programming language is more relevant to practice, not to theory.

Only practice makes you perfect in computer science and programming.

We are learning Java to solve problems and build applications, right? To do that, we better start writing code first. If you cannot take a short swim in the pool, you cannot learn swimming.

Let us start with small programs, the result follows and since it is caused by some phenomenon, we will learn the theory thereafter.

We will study the problem first, then we solve it and practice some more relevant problems. After that we will discuss theory.

After all, we want to build an application, which is concrete and reality.

Although the Abstraction stays behind the curtain, we will learn them with the help of our problems.

As we progress, through the eyes of 100 problems, we will learn the following topics:

1) What is a High Level Language? Why we need to know about the concepts regarding memory allocation, heap and stack. Problems and Solutions.

2) Which code editor we need to learn and practice Java code? What else we need to run our code successfully?

3) Difference between Procedural and Object Oriented Programming (OOP). How Java programming is written within a class. The role of compiler and interpreter. Problems and Solutions.

4) Variables and Primitive Data Types in Java. What are the roles of Primitive data types in saving Memory. Problems and Solutions.

5) More about Variables, Reference variables that represent State of an Object. Problems and Solutions.

6) What are the key concepts of OOP, such as Data Abstraction, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Encapsulation? Problems and Solutions.

7) Mathematical Library methods and their implications. Problems and Solutions.

8) Conditional Constructs in Java. How menu driven programs work. Problems and Solutions.

9) Iterative Constructs in Java. Variations in looping and Jump statements. Problems and Solutions.

10) Nested for loops. Various patterns. Problems and Solutions.

And many more about Date-time API, Deployment and other core concepts.