Includes index.

Contents: Introduction to object-oriented software design -- Data abstraction: introductory concepts -- Defining a simple class -- Designing interacting classes -- Conditions -- Programming by contract -- Testing -- Building a text-based user interface -- The software life cycle: building a complete system -- Specifying clients: interfaces -- Class extension and inheritance -- Modeling with abstraction -- Lists -- Arrays -- Sorting and searching -- Failures and exceptions -- Stream i/o -- Building a graphical user interface -- Integrating user interface and model: the Model-View-Controller pattern -- Recursion -- Generic structures -- Implementing lists: linked implementations -- Iterators -- Supplement a: Systems and software -- Supplement b: Programming errors -- Supplement c: Applets -- Supplement d: Enumerations types: the rest of the story -- Appendix i. Compiling, executing, and documenting -- Appendix ii. Dr Java -- Appendix iii. Controls and basic Latin: the first 128 Unicode characters --

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