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Basics

• API 6
• API 7
• API 8
• Access modifiers
• Basics of Java
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• Documentation
• Escape characters
• final: The final word on the final keyword
• Garbage collection: how it works
• Glossary
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• Number formatting: introduction
• Number formatting: print output
• Scope & lifetime
• Skills inventories
• Style Guide

BlueJ

• Activities
• BlueJ.org
• Manual: Reference
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Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

• Classes & objects
• compareTo method
• equals method
• Generic types
• Graphical User Interfaces
• Inheritance
• Interfaces
• instanceof operator
• Object references
• Polymorphism
• Programmer’s Solemn Obligation
• toString template

Textbooks & other IDEs

• Big Java, Chapter 1, from Horstmann, Cay. Big Java. 2002: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ISBN 0-471-40248-6.
• Greenfoot
• Objects First with Java: A Practical Introduction using BlueJ
• Objects First with Java: Video Notes on YouTube
• Objects First with Java: Chapter 4 notes
• Objects First with Java: Table of Contents
• Top 5 free Java ebooks