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Joshua Hester is a content developer for Kaplan IT Learning and a certified trainer for Microsoft and Certified Internet Webmaster pro- grams. He has written, talked, taught, and breathed code for more than 15 years. After mastering BASIC with a Commodore 64 and pushing his website development on people throughout college, he has now evolved into Java Structs, the Microsoft 4 Framework, and other Web 2.0 technologies.

Mr. Hester is a certified Project Management Professional, Linux Professional, and Microsoft Office Specialist; he also holds certifica- tions for A+, Linux+, Network+, and i-Net+. He earned a bachelor of arts in English from Colgate University and is currently pursuing a masters of education in instructional technology from Kaplan University. Besides looking for more certifications, he’s an avid runner and gamer and enjoys biking, hiking, and solving the odd logic puzzle.

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INSTRUCTIONS TO STUDENTS 1

LESSON ASSIGNMENTS 5

LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE JAVA LANGUAGE 7

GRADED PROJECT—LESSON 1 29

LESSON 2: DATA TYPES AND PROGRAM CONTROL 33

GRADED PROJECT—LESSON 2 71

LESSON 3: OBJECT- ORIENTED PROGRAMMING 79

GRADED PROJECT—LESSON 3 133

LESSON 4: ADVANCED PROGRAMMING LOGIC 141

GRADED PROJECT—LESSON 4 165

LESSON 5: GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE DESIGN 169

GRADED PROJECT—LESSON 5 195