The history and evolution of Java -- An overview of Java -- Data types, variables, and arrays -- Operators -- Control statements -- Introducing classes -- A closer look at methods and classes -- Inheritance -- Packages and interfaces -- Exception handling -- Multithreaded programming -- Enumerations, autoboxing, and annotations (metadata) -- I/O, applets, and other topics -- Generics -- Lambda expressions -- String handling -- Exploring java.lang -- Java.util part 1: the collections framework -- Java.util part 2: more utility classes -- Input/output: exploring java.io -- Exploring NIO -- Networking -- The applet class -- Event handling -- Introducing the AWT: working with windows, graphics, and text -- Using AWT controls, layout managers, and menus -- Images -- The concurrency utilities -- The stream API -- Regular expressions and other packages -- Introducing swing -- Exploring swing -- Introducing swing menus -- Introducing JavaFX GUI programming -- Exploring JavaFX controls -- Introducing JavaFX menus -- Java beans -- Introducing servlets -- Using Java's documentation comments.