• 1. Objects and classes  
• 2. Understanding class definitions  
• 3. Object interaction  
• 4. Grouping objects  
• 5. Functional processing of collections
• 6. More-sophisticated behavior          
• 7. Fixed-size collections: arrays  
• 8. Designing classes  
• 9. Well-behaved objects 
• 10. Working in teams
• 11. Recursion  
• 12. Improving structure with inheritance
• 13. More about inheritance 
• 14. Further abstraction techniques 
• 15. Data-oriented classes  
• 16. A brief history of Java  
• 17. Building graphical user interfaces 
• 18. Handling errors 
• 19. Designing applications 
• 20. A case study

Appendices  

• A. Working with a BlueJ project 
• B. Java data types               
• C. Operators                 
• D. Java control structures  
• E. Running Java without BlueJ  
• F. Using the debugger 
• G. JUnit unit-testing tools  
• H. Teamwork tools  
• I. Javadoc  
• J. Program style guide  
• K. Important library classes
• L. Concept glossary