Learn Java the Hard Way, 2nd Edition

Table of Contents......Page 4 Acknowledgements......Page 7 Preface: Learning by Doing......Page 8 Introduction: Java......Page 9 Exercise 0: The Setup......Page 12 Exercise 1: An Important Message......Page 28 Exercise 2: More Printing......Page 35 Exercise 3: Printing Choices......Page 38 Exercise 4: Escape Sequences and Comments......Page 41 Exercise 5: Saving Information in Variables......Page 44 Exercise 6: Mathematical Operations......Page 47 Exercise 7: Getting Input from a Human......Page 50 Exercise 8: Storing the Human's Responses......Page 53 Exercise 9: Calculations with User Input......Page 59 Exercise 10: Variables Only Hold Values......Page 61 Exercise 11: Variable Modification Shortcuts......Page 64 Exercise 12: Boolean Expressions......Page 68 Exercise 13: Comparing Strings......Page 71 Exercise 14: Compound Boolean Expressions......Page 73 Exercise 15: Making Decisions with If Statements......Page 76 Exercise 16: More If Statements......Page 78 Exercise 17: Otherwise (If Statements with Else)......Page 80 Exercise 18: If Statements with Strings......Page 82 Exercise 19: Mutual Exclusion with Chains of If and Else......Page 84 Exercise 20: More Chains of Ifs and Else......Page 87 Exercise 21: Nested If Statements......Page 91 Exercise 22: Making Decisions with a Big Switch......Page 94 Exercise 23: More String Comparisons......Page 97 Exercise 24: Choosing Numbers Randomly......Page 101 Exercise 25: Repeating Yourself with the While Loop......Page 106 Exercise 26: A Number-Guessing Game......Page 109 Exercise 27: Infinite Loops......Page 112 Exercise 28: Using Loops for Error-Checking......Page 115 Exercise 29: Do-While loops......Page 118 Exercise 30: Adding Values One at a Time......Page 122 Exercise 31: Adding Values for a Dice Game......Page 125 Exercise 32: The Dice Game Called `Pig'......Page 128 Exercise 33: Calling a Function......Page 133 Exercise 34: Calling Functions to Draw a Flag......Page 136 Exercise 35: Displaying Dice with Functions......Page 140 Exercise 36: Returning a Value from a Function......Page 149 Exercise 37: Areas of Shapes......Page 155 Exercise 38: Thirty Days Revisited with Javadoc......Page 159 Exercise 39: Importing Standard Libraries......Page 164 Exercise 40: Programs that Write to Files......Page 168 Exercise 41: Getting Data from a File......Page 173 Exercise 42: Getting ALL the Data from a File......Page 176 Exercise 43: Saving a High Score......Page 179 Exercise 44: Counting with a For Loop......Page 183 Exercise 45: Caesar Cipher (Looping Through a String)......Page 187 Exercise 46: Nested For Loops......Page 191 Exercise 47: Generating and Filtering Values......Page 193 Exercise 48: Arrays - Many Values in a Single Variable......Page 196 Exercise 49: Finding Things in an Array......Page 198 Exercise 50: Saying Something Is NOT in an Array......Page 200 Exercise 51: Arrays Without Foreach Loops......Page 203 Exercise 52: Lowest Temperature......Page 209 Exercise 53: Mailing Addresses (Records)......Page 214 Exercise 54: Records from a File......Page 217 Exercise 55: An Array of Records......Page 221 Exercise 56: Array of Records from a File (Temperatures Revisited)......Page 225 Exercise 57: A Deck of Playing Cards......Page 230 Exercise 58: Final Project - Text Adventure Game......Page 235 Next Steps......Page 244