The book contains: Course History of Java, Features of Java, Java Development Kit (JDK), Security in Java. Java Basics: Keywords; Working of Java; Including Comments; Data Types in Java; Primitive Data Types; Abstract / Derived Data Types; Variables in Java; Using Classes in Java; Declaring Methods in Java, Code to Display Test Value; The main Method, Invoking a Method in Java; Saving, Compiling and Executing Java Programs. Operators and Control Statements: Operators, Arithmetic Operators, Increment and Decrement Operators, Comparison Operators, Logical Operators, Operator Precedence; Control Flow Statements, If-else Statement, Switch Statement, For Loop, While Loop, DöWhile Loop, Break Statement Continue Statement. Arrays and Strings: Arrays; String Handling; Special String Operations; Character Extraction; String Comparison; Searching Strings; String Modification; String Buffer.