Dr. David Parsons is National Postgraduate Director of The Mind Lab by Unitec, where he runs a digital and collaborative learning programme for in-service teachers. He holds a PhD in Information Technology (IT) and has extensive experience in academia and the IT industry in the UK and Australasia. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Mobile and Blended Learning and the author of numerous books, chapters and articles on various aspects of technology-enhanced learning and the teaching of software engineering. He also has substantial experience in agile and lean software development, and provides industry training on applying these techniques.

The Java Story

Compiling and Running Java Programs

Data Types, Arithmetic and Arrays

Control Structures

Creating Objects

Creating Domain Classes

Objects Working Together: Association, Aggregation and Composition

Inheritance, Polymorphism and Interfaces

Exception Handling

Unit Testing With JUnit

Exploring the Java Libraries

The Collections Framework and Generics

Input and Output Streams

Automatic Building and Testing with Ant

Java and the Database (JDBC)

Multithreading

Building GUIs with the JFC Swing Library

Event Driven Programming

Dialogs and Menus, Models and Views

Java Web Start and Applets