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<strong><a href="concepts/index.html">Object-Oriented Programming Concepts</a></strong>
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<a href="concepts/object.html">What Is an Object?</a>
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<a href="concepts/class.html">What Is a Class?</a>
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<a href="concepts/inheritance.html">What Is Inheritance?</a>
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<a href="concepts/interface.html">What Is an Interface?</a>
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<a href="concepts/package.html">What Is a Package?</a>
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<a href="concepts/QandE/questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Object-Oriented Programming Concepts</a>
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<strong><a href="nutsandbolts/index.html">Language Basics</a></strong>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/variables.html">Variables</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/datatypes.html">Primitive Data Types</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/arrays.html">Arrays</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/variablesummary.html">Summary of Variables</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/QandE/questions_variables.html">Questions and Exercises: Variables</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/operators.html">Operators</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/op1.html">Assignment, Arithmetic, and Unary Operators</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/op2.html">Equality, Relational, and Conditional Operators </a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/op3.html">Bitwise and Bit Shift Operators</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/opsummary.html">Summary of Operators</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/QandE/questions_operators.html">Questions and Exercises: Operators</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/expressions.html">Expressions, Statements, and Blocks</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/QandE/questions_expressions.html">Questions and Exercises: Expressions, Statements, and Blocks</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/flow.html">Control Flow Statements</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/if.html">The if-then and if-then-else Statements</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/switch.html">The switch Statement</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/while.html">The while and do-while Statements</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/for.html">The for Statement</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/branch.html">Branching Statements</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/flowsummary.html">Summary of Control Flow Statements</a>
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<a href="nutsandbolts/QandE/questions_flow.html">Questions and Exercises: Control Flow Statements</a>
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<strong><a href="javaOO/index.html">Classes and Objects</a></strong>
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<a href="javaOO/classes.html">Classes</a>
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<a href="javaOO/classdecl.html">Declaring Classes</a>
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<a href="javaOO/variables.html">Declaring Member Variables</a>
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<a href="javaOO/methods.html">Defining Methods</a>
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<a href="javaOO/constructors.html">Providing Constructors for Your Classes</a>
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<a href="javaOO/arguments.html">Passing Information to a Method or a Constructor</a>
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<a href="javaOO/objects.html">Objects</a>
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<a href="javaOO/objectcreation.html">Creating Objects</a>
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<a href="javaOO/usingobject.html">Using Objects</a>
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<a href="javaOO/more.html">More on Classes</a>
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<a href="javaOO/returnvalue.html">Returning a Value from a Method</a>
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<a href="javaOO/thiskey.html">Using the this Keyword</a>
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<a href="javaOO/accesscontrol.html">Controlling Access to Members of a Class</a>
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<a href="javaOO/classvars.html">Understanding Instance and Class Members</a>
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<a href="javaOO/initial.html">Initializing Fields</a>
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<a href="javaOO/summaryclasses.html">Summary of Creating and Using Classes and Objects</a>
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<a href="javaOO/QandE/creating-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Classes</a>
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<a href="javaOO/QandE/objects-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Objects</a>
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<a href="javaOO/nested.html">Nested Classes</a>
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<a href="javaOO/innerclasses.html">Inner Class Example</a>
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<a href="javaOO/summarynested.html">Summary of Nested Classes</a>
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<a href="javaOO/QandE/nested-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Nested Classes</a>
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<a href="javaOO/enum.html">Enum Types</a>
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<a href="javaOO/QandE/enum-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Enum Types</a>
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<a href="javaOO/annotations.html">Annotations</a>
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<a href="javaOO/QandE/annotations-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Annotations</a>
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<strong><a href="IandI/index.html">Interfaces and Inheritance</a></strong>
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<a href="IandI/createinterface.html">Interfaces</a>
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<a href="IandI/interfaceDef.html">Defining an Interface</a>
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<a href="IandI/usinginterface.html">Implementing an Interface</a>
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<a href="IandI/interfaceAsType.html">Using an Interface as a Type</a>
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<a href="IandI/nogrow.html">Rewriting Interfaces</a>
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<a href="IandI/summary-interface.html">Summary of Interfaces</a>
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<a href="IandI/QandE/interfaces-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Interfaces</a>
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<a href="IandI/subclasses.html">Inheritance</a>
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<a href="IandI/override.html">Overriding and Hiding Methods</a>
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<a href="IandI/hidevariables.html">Hiding Fields</a>
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<a href="IandI/super.html">Using the Keyword super</a>
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<a href="IandI/objectclass.html">Object as a Superclass</a>
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<a href="IandI/final.html">Writing Final Classes and Methods</a>
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<a href="IandI/abstract.html">Abstract Methods and Classes</a>
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<a href="IandI/summaryinherit.html">Summary of Inheritance</a>
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<a href="IandI/QandE/inherit-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Inheritance</a>
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<strong><a href="data/index.html">Numbers and Strings</a></strong>
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<a href="data/numbers.html">Numbers</a>
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<a href="data/numberclasses.html">The Numbers Classes</a>
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<a href="data/numberformat.html">Formatting Numeric Print Output</a>
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<a href="data/beyondmath.html">Beyond Basic Arithmetic</a>
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<a href="data/numbersummary.html">Summary of Numbers</a>
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<a href="data/QandE/numbers-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Numbers</a>
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<a href="data/characters.html">Characters</a>
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<a href="data/converting.html">Converting Between Numbers and Strings</a>
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<a href="data/manipstrings.html">Manipulating Characters in a String</a>
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<a href="data/comparestrings.html">Comparing Strings and Portions of Strings</a>
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<a href="data/buffers.html">The StringBuilder Class</a>
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<a href="data/stringsummary.html">Summary of Characters and Strings</a>
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<a href="data/QandE/characters-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Characters and Strings</a>
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<strong><a href="generics/index.html">Generics</a></strong>
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<a href="generics/generics.html">Introduction</a>
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<a href="generics/gentypes.html">Generic Types</a>
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<a href="generics/genmethods.html">Generic Methods and Constructors</a>
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<a href="generics/bounded.html">Bounded Type Parameters</a>
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<a href="generics/subtyping.html">Subtyping</a>
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<a href="generics/wildcards.html">Wildcards</a>
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<a href="generics/erasure.html">Type Erasure</a>
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<a href="generics/summarygenerics.html">Summary of Generics</a>
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<a href="generics/QandE/generics-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Generics</a>
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<strong><a href="package/index.html">Packages</a></strong>
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<a href="package/packages.html">Creating and Using Packages</a>
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<a href="package/createpkgs.html">Creating a Package</a>
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<a href="package/namingpkgs.html">Naming a Package</a>
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<a href="package/usepkgs.html">Using Package Members</a>
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<a href="package/managingfiles.html">Managing Source and Class Files</a>
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<a href="package/summary-package.html">Summary of Creating and Using Packages</a>
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<a href="package/QandE/packages-questions.html">Questions and Exercises: Creating and Using Packages</a>
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<strong><a href="problems/index.html">Solving Common Coding Problems</a></strong>
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