Tony Gaddis is the principal author of the Starting Out With series of textbooks. He has 20 years of experience teaching computer science courses, primarily at Haywood Community College. Tony is a highly acclaimed instructor who was previously selected as the North Carolina Community College "Teacher of the Year" and has received the Teaching Excellence award from the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development. The Starting Out With series includes introductory textbooks covering programming logic and design, C++, Java, Microsoft® Visual Basic®, Microsoft® Visual C#, Python, Alice and App Inventor, all published by Pearson.

1. Introduction to Computers and Java
2. Java Fundamentals
3. Decision Structures
4. Loops and Files
5. Methods
6. A First Look at Classes
7. Arrays and the ArrayList Class
8. A Second Look at Classes and Objects
9. Text Processing and Wrapper Classes
10. Inheritance
11. Exceptions and Advanced File I/O
12. JavaFX: GUI Programming and Basic Controls
13. JavaFX: Advanced Controls
14. JavaFX: Graphics, Effects, and Media
15. Recursion
16. Databases

1. JOptionPane Dialogs
2. The ASCII/Unicode Characters
3. Operator Precedence and Associativity
4. Java Keywords
5. Installing OpenJDK and Using the JDK Documentation
6. Installing and Working with JavaFX
7. Using the javadoc Utility
8. More about the Math Class
9. Packages
10. Working with Records and Random Access Files
11. Downloading and Installing Apache Derby
12. The QuickSort Algorithm
13. Named Colors
14. Answers to Odd-Numbered Review Questions

1. Calculating Sales Commission
2. The Amortization Class
3. The PinTester Class
4. Parallel Arrays
5. The FeetInches Class
6. The SerialNumber Class
7. A Simple Text Editor Application Using Swing