The document discusses the Java programming language and its uses. It notes that Java is one of the most widely used programming languages and is commonly used to develop applications for devices like smartphones and tablets. The document provides an overview of Java editions and describes how Java is used for general purpose applications as well as enterprise applications and applications for small devices.
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Chapter 1-Introduction To Computers and Java
The document discusses the Java programming language and its uses. It notes that Java is one of the most widely used programming languages and is commonly used to develop applications for devices like smartphones and tablets. The document provides an overview of Java editions and describes how Java is used for general purpose applications as well as enterprise applications and applications for small devices.
Describe what comprises a legal program in Java Describe distinguishing features of OO languages Design Java programs to meet simple requirements, expressed in English Understand the documentation for and make use of the Java API and other library packages
All Rights Reserved. Java is the preferred language for meeting many organizations’ enterprise programming needs. Java has become the language of choice for implementing Internet-based applications and software for devices that communicate over a network. In use today are more than a billion general-purpose computers and billions more Java-enabled cell phones, smartphones and handheld devices (such as tablet computers).
All Rights Reserved. The number of mobile Internet users will reach approximately 134 million by 2013. Smartphone sales are projected to surpass personal computer sales in 2011 and tablet sales to account for over 20% of all personal computer sales by 2015. By 2014, the smartphone applications market is expected to exceed $40 billion, which is creating significant opportunities for programming mobile applications.
All Rights Reserved. Java Editions: SE, EE and ME ◦ Covers Java Standard Edition 6 (Java SE 6) with optional modules on the new features of Java SE 7 ◦ Used for developing cross-platform, general-purpose applications. ◦ Java is used in such a broad spectrum of applications that it has two other editions. ◦ The Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) ◦ Geared toward developing large-scale, distributed networking applications and web-based applications.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ Java Micro Edition (Java ME) ◦ geared toward developing applications for small, memory- constrained devices, such as BlackBerry smartphones. ◦ Google’s Android operating system ◦ used on numerous smartphones, tablets (small, lightweight mobile computers with touch screens), e-readers and other devices—uses a customized version of Java not based on Java ME.
All Rights Reserved. Computing in Industry and Research ◦ Many of the most influential and successful businesses of the last two decades are technology companies, including Apple, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Dell, Intel, Motorola, Cisco, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Foursquare, Yahoo!, eBay and many more ◦ These are major employers of people who study computer science, information systems or related disciplines. ◦ Computers are used extensively in academic and industrial research.
All Rights Reserved. These programs guide the computer through orderly sets of actions specified by people called computer programmers. The programs that run on a computer are referred to as software. You’ll learn today’s key programming methodology that’s enhancing programmer productivity, thereby reducing software-development costs—object-oriented programming.
All Rights Reserved. A computer consists of various devices referred to as hardware ◦ (e.g., the keyboard, screen, mouse, hard disks, memory, DVDs and processing units). Computing costs are dropping dramatically, owing to rapid developments in hardware and software technologies. Computers that might have filled large rooms and cost millions of dollars decades ago are now inscribed on silicon chips smaller than a fingernail, costing perhaps a few dollars each.
All Rights Reserved. Silicon-chip technology has made computing so economical that more than a billion general-purpose computers are in use worldwide, and this is expected to double in the next few years. Computer chips (microprocessors) control countless devices. Embedded systems include anti-lock brakes in cars, navigation systems, smart home appliances, home security systems, cell phones and smartphones, robots, intelligent traffic intersections, collision avoidance systems, video game controllers and more.
All Rights Reserved. The vast majority of the microprocessors produced each year are embedded in devices other than general- purpose computers. Moore’s Law ◦ For many decades, hardware costs have fallen rapidly. ◦ Every year or two, the capacities of computers have approximately doubled without any increase in price. ◦ Observation often is called Moore’s Law.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ Named for the person who identified the trend, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel. ◦ Moore’s Law and related observations are especially true in relation to the amount of memory that computers have for programs, the amount of secondary storage (such as disk storage) they have to hold programs and data over longer periods of time, and their processor speeds—the speeds at which computers execute their programs (i.e., do their work).
All Rights Reserved. ◦ Similar growth has occurred in the communications field ◦ Costs have plummeted as enormous demand for communications bandwidth has attracted intense competition. ◦ Such phenomenal improvement is fostering the Information Revolution.
All Rights Reserved. Data items processed by computers form a data hierarchy that becomes larger and more complex in structure as we progress from bits to characters to fields, and so on.
All Rights Reserved. Any computer can directly understand only its own machine language, defined by its hardware design. ◦ Generally consist of strings of numbers (ultimately reduced to 1s and 0s) that instruct computers to perform their most elementary operations one at a time. ◦ Machine dependent—a particular ma-chine language can be used on only one type of computer. English-like abbreviations that represent elementary operations formed the basis of assembly languages. Translator programs called assemblers convert early assembly- language programs to machine language.
All Rights Reserved. High-level languages ◦ Single statements accomplish substantial tasks. ◦ Compilers convert high-level language programs into machine language. ◦ Allow you to write instructions that look almost like everyday English and contain commonly used mathematical notations. ◦ A payroll program written in a high-level language might contain a single statement such as grossPay = basePay + overTimePay Compiling a high-level language program into machine language can take a considerable amount of computer time. Interpreter programs execute high-level language programs directly, although slower than compiled programs run.
All Rights Reserved. Objects, or more precisely, the classes objects come from, are essentially reusable software components. ◦ There are date objects, time objects, audio objects, video objects, automobile objects, people objects, etc. ◦ Almost any noun can be reasonably represented as a software object in terms of attributes (e.g., name, color and size) and behaviors (e.g., calculating, moving and communicating). Using a modular, object-oriented design and implementation approach can make software-development groups much more productive than was possible with earlier popular techniques like “structured programming”—object-oriented programs are often eas-ier to understand, correct and modify.
All Rights Reserved. The Automobile as an Object ◦ Let’s begin with a simple analogy. ◦ Suppose you want to drive a car and make it go faster by pressing its accelerator pedal. ◦ Before you can drive a car, someone has to design it. ◦ A car typically begins as engineering drawings, similar to the blueprints that describe the design of a house. ◦ Drawings include the design for an accelerator pedal. ◦ Pedal hides from the driver the complex mechanisms that actually make the car go faster, just as the brake pedal hides the mechanisms that slow the car, and the steering wheel “hides” the mechanisms that turn the car.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ Enables people with little or no knowledge of how engines, braking and steering mechanisms work to drive a car easily. ◦ Before you can drive a car, it must be built from the engineering drawings that describe it. ◦ A completed car has an actual accelerator pedal to make the car go faster, but even that’s not enough—the car won’t accelerate on its own (hopefully!), so the driver must press the pedal to accelerate the car.
All Rights Reserved. Methods and Classes ◦ Performing a task in a program requires a method. ◦ The method houses the program statements that actually perform its tasks. ◦ Hides these statements from its user, just as the accelerator pedal of a car hides from the driver the mechanisms of making the car go faster. ◦ In Java, we create a program unit called a class to house the set of methods that perform the class’s tasks. ◦ A class is similar in concept to a car’s engineering drawings, which house the design of an accelerator pedal, steering wheel, and so on.
All Rights Reserved. Instantiation ◦ Just as someone has to build a car from its engineering drawings before you can actually drive a car, you must build an object of a class before a program can perform the tasks that the class’s methods define. ◦ An object is then referred to as an instance of its class.
All Rights Reserved. Reuse ◦ Just as a car’s engineering drawings can be reused many times to build many cars, you can reuse a class many times to build many objects. ◦ Reuse of existing classes when building new classes and programs saves time and effort. ◦ Reuse also helps you build more reliable and effective systems, because existing classes and components often have gone through extensive testing, debugging and performance tuning. ◦ Just as the notion of interchangeable parts was crucial to the Industrial Revolution, reusable classes are crucial to the software revolution that has been spurred by object technology.
All Rights Reserved. Attributes and Instance Variables ◦ A car has attributes ◦ Color, its number of doors, the amount of gas in its tank, its current speed and its record of total miles driven (i.e., its odometer reading). ◦ The car’s attributes are represented as part of its design in its engineering diagrams. ◦ Every car maintains its own attributes. ◦ Each car knows how much gas is in its own gas tank, but not how much is in the tanks of other cars.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ An object, has attributes that it carries along as it’s used in a program. ◦ Specified as part of the object’s class. ◦ A bank account object has a balance attribute that represents the amount of money in the account. ◦ Each bank account object knows the balance in the account it represents, but not the balances of the other accounts in the bank. ◦ Attributes are specified by the class’s instance variables.
All Rights Reserved. Encapsulation ◦ Classes encapsulate (i.e., wrap) attributes and methods into objects—an object’s attributes and methods are intimately related. ◦ Objects may communicate with one another, but they’re normally not allowed to know how other objects are implemented—implementation details are hidden within the objects themselves. ◦ Information hiding, as we’ll see, is crucial to good software engineering.
All Rights Reserved. Inheritance ◦ A new class of objects can be created quickly and conveniently by inheritance—the new class absorbs the characteristics of an existing class, possibly customizing them and adding unique characteristics of its own. ◦ In our car analogy, an object of class “convertible” certainly is an object of the more general class “automobile,” but more specifically, the roof can be raised or lowered.
All Rights Reserved. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (OOAD) ◦ How will you create the code (i.e., the program instructions) for your programs? ◦ Follow a detailed analysis process for determining your project’s requirements (i.e., defining what the system is supposed to do) ◦ Develop a design that satisfies them (i.e., deciding how the system should do it). ◦ Carefully review the design (and have your design reviewed by other software professionals) before writing any code.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ Analyzing and designing your system from an object-oriented point of view is called an object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) process. ◦ Languages like Java are object oriented. ◦ Object-oriented programming (OOP) allows you to implement an object-oriented design as a working system.
All Rights Reserved. The UML (Unified Modeling Language) ◦ The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is the most widely used graphical scheme for modeling object-oriented systems.
All Rights Reserved. Operating systems ◦ Software systems that make using computers more convenient. ◦ Provide services that allow each application to execute safely, efficiently and concurrently (i.e., in parallel) with other applications. ◦ The software that contains the core components of the operating system is called the kernel. ◦ Popular desktop operating systems include Linux, Windows 7 and Mac OS X. ◦ Popular mobile operating systems used in smartphones and tablets include Google’s Android, BlackBerry OS and Apple’s iOS (for its iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices).
All Rights Reserved. Windows—A Proprietary Operating System ◦ Mid-1980s: Microsoft developed the Windows operating system, consisting of a graphical user interface built on top of DOS—an enormously popular personal-computer operating system of the time that users interacted with by typing commands. ◦ Windows borrowed from many concepts (such as icons, menus and windows) popularized by early Apple Macintosh operating systems and originally developed by Xerox PARC.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ Windows 7, Microsoft’s latest operating system, features enhancements to the user interface, faster startup times, further refinement of security features, touch-screen and multi-touch support, and more. ◦ Windows is a proprietary operating system—it’s controlled by one company exclusively. ◦ Windows is by far the world’s most widely used operating system.
All Rights Reserved. Linux—An Open-Source Operating System Open-source software ◦ A software development style that departs from the proprietary development that dominated software’s early years. ◦ Individuals and companies contribute their efforts in developing, maintaining and evolving software in exchange for the right to use that software for their own purposes, typically at no charge.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ Eclipse Foundation (the Eclipse Integrated Development Environment helps Java programmers conveniently develop software) ◦ Mozilla Foundation (creators of the Firefox web browser) ◦ Apache Software Foundation (creators of the Apache web server) ◦ SourceForge (which provides the tools for managing open source projects—it has over 260,000 of them under development). ◦ Facebook, which was launched from a college dorm room and built with open-source software.
All Rights Reserved. Linux ◦ The most popular open-source operating system. ◦ Developed by volunteers ◦ Popular in servers, personal computers and embedded systems. ◦ Source code is available to the public for examination and modification ◦ Free to download and install. ◦ Ability to completely customize the operating system to meet specific needs. ◦ 1991: Linus Torvalds began developing the Linux kernel.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ The name is derived from “Linus” and “UNIX”—an operating system developed by Bell Labs in 1969. ◦ Favorable response led to the creation of a community that has continued to develop and support Linux. ◦ Developers downloaded, tested, and modified the Linux code, submitting bug fixes and feedback to Torvalds, who reviewed them and applied the improvements to the code. ◦ The 1994 release of Linux included features found in a mature operating system, making Linux a viable alternative to UNIX. ◦ Extremely popular on servers and in embedded systems, such as Android-based smartphones.
All Rights Reserved. Android ◦ Fastest growing mobile and smartphone operating system ◦ Based on the Linux kernel and Java. ◦ Open source and free. ◦ Developed by Android, Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2005. ◦ As of December 2010, more than 300,000 Android smartphones were being activated each day. ◦ Android smartphones are now outselling iPhones.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ Android operating system is used in numerous smartphones, e- reader devices, tablet computers, in-store touch-screen kiosks, cars, robots and multimedia players. ◦ Android smartphones include the functionality of a mobile phone, Internet client (for web browsing and Internet communication), MP3 player, gaming console, digital camera and more, wrapped into handheld devices with full-color multitouch screens—these allow you to control the device with gestures involving one touch or multiple simultaneous touches.
All Rights Reserved. Android App-Development Chapters on the Companion Website ◦ The book’s companion website includes a three-chapter introduction to Android app development from the book, Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach. ◦ After you learn Java, you’ll find it straightforward to begin developing and running Android apps.
All Rights Reserved. 1993 ◦ The web exploded in popularity ◦ Sun saw the potential of using Java to add dynamic content to web pages. Java garnered the attention of the business community because of the phenomenal interest in the web. Java is used to develop large-scale enterprise applications, to enhance the functionality of web servers, to provide applications for consumer devices and for many other purposes.
All Rights Reserved. Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle in 2009. As of 2010 97% of enterprise desktops, three billion handsets, and 80 million television devices run Java. Java is the most widely used software development language in the world.
All Rights Reserved. Java Class Libraries ◦ Rich collections of existing classes and methods ◦ Also known as the Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces).
All Rights Reserved. Phase 1 consists of editing a file with an I ◦ Type a Java program (source code) using the editor. ◦ Make any necessary corrections. ◦ Save the program. ◦ A file name ending with the .java extension indicates that the file contains Java source code.
All Rights Reserved. Popular IDEs ◦ Eclipse (www.eclipse.org) ◦ NetBeans (www.netbeans.org). ◦ jGRASP™ IDE (www.jgrasp.org) ◦ DrJava IDE (www.drjava.org/download.shtml) ◦ BlueJ IDE (www.bluej.org/) ◦ TextPad® Text Editor for Windows® (www.textpad.com/)
All Rights Reserved. Phase 2: Compiling a Java Program into Bytecodes ◦ Use the command javac (the Java compiler) to compile a program. For example, to compile a program called Welcome.java, you’d type javac Welcome.java ◦ If the program compiles, the compiler produces a .class file called Welcome.class that contains the compiled version of the program.
All Rights Reserved. Bytecodes are platform independent ◦ They do not depend on a particular hardware platform. Bytecodes are portable ◦ The same bytecodes can execute on any platform containing a JVM that understands the version of Java in which the bytecodes were compiled. The JVM is invoked by the java command. For example, to execute a Java application called Welcome, you’d type the command java Welcome
All Rights Reserved. Phase 3: Loading a Program into Memory ◦ The JVM places the program in memory to execute it—this is known as loading. ◦ Class loader takes the .class files containing the program’s bytecodes and transfers them to primary memory. ◦ Also loads any of the .class files provided by Java that your program uses. The .class files can be loaded from a disk on your system or over a network.
All Rights Reserved. ◦ When the JVM encounters these compiled parts again, the faster machine-language code executes. ◦ Java programs go through two compilation phases ◦ One in which source code is translated into bytecodes (for portability across JVMs on different computer platforms) and ◦ A second in which, during execution, the bytecodes are translated into machine language for the actual computer on which the program executes.
All Rights Reserved. Google ◦ In 1996, Stanford computer science Ph.D. candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin began collaborating on a new search engine. ◦ In 1997, they changed the name to Google—a play on the mathematical term googol ◦ Google’s ability to return extremely accurate search results quickly helped it become the most widely used search engine and one of the most popular websites in the world.
All Rights Reserved. Web Services and Mashups ◦ Mashup is an applications-development methodology in which you can rapidly develop powerful and intriguing applications by combining (often free) complementary web services and other forms of information feeds.
All Rights Reserved. Social Applications ◦ Over the last several years, there’s been a tremendous increase in the number of social applications on the web. ◦ These sites were able to become phenomenally successful in a relatively short period of time.