Programming Principles in Java: Architectures and Interfaces David Schmidt, Kansas State University

This web page contains the latest draft of my CS1 course text. The text is perpetually under development, and contents are subject to change without warning.

This material is intended for the use of the CIS students and staff at Kansas State University and should not be copied or distributed beyond KSU without my permission. (Please send me an email if you want to use these notes for personal study or for a course you are teaching---it won't cost you anything; I just want to know who is using the text.)

Copyright on these materials belongs to Scott/Jones Publishers, who will publish the text Some Year Real Soon Now.

January 2003 Version

Here are the individual chapters, in both html and pdf format. I suggest that you use the html-files to quickly scan the chapters, cut-and-paste the chapters' source code into your edit window, and view the color graphics. The pdf is recommended if you wish to download, study, and print a chapter.

There is also a Postscript version, which can be downloaded via ftp:

• The folder at ftp://ftp.cis.ksu.edu/pub/CIS/Schmidt/CIS200/JavaText holds the individual chapters in ps-format.
• ftp://ftp.cis.ksu.edu/pub/CIS/Schmidt/CIS200/JavaText.tar.gz is a single gzipped, tar file that holds all the ps files.

Cover pages pdf Table of Contents html | pdf Preface html | pdf Computers and Programming html | pdf Simple Java Applications html | pdf Arithmetic and Variables html | pdf Input, Output, and State html | pdf Component Structure: Method and Class Building html | pdf Control Structure: Conditional Statements html | pdf Patterns of Repetition: Iteration and Recursion html | pdf Data Structure: Arrays html | pdf Programming to Interfaces html | pdf Graphical User Interfaces and Event-Driven Programming html | pdf Text and File Processing html | pdf There was once a chapter on data structures, but it desperately needs rewriting. Appendices html | pdf Index html | pdf Solutions to exercises html (Sorry-no pdf)

If you locate typos or have comments regarding content or layout, send me email at schmidt at cis.ksu.edu.

---Dave Schmidt