This easytofollow textbook teaches Java programming from first principles as well as covering design and testing methodologies. The text is divided into two parts. Each part supports a onesemester module the first part addressing fundamental programming concepts and the second part building on this foundation teaching the skills required to develop more advanced applications.This fully updated and greatly enhanced fourth edition covers the key developments introduced in Java 8 including material on JavaFX lambda expressions and the Stream API.Topics and features begins by introducing fundamental programming concepts such as declaration of variables control structures methods and arrays goes on to cover the fundamental objectoriented concepts of classes and objects inheritance and polymorphism uses JavaFX throughout for constructing eventdriven graphical interfaces includes advanced topics such as interfaces and lambda expressions generics collection classes and exceptions explains filehandling techniques packages multithreaded programs socket programming remote database access and processing collections using streams includes selftest questions and programming exercises at the end of each chapter as well as two illuminating case studies provides additional resources at its associated website simply go to .