Head first Java

Online version:

1. Breaking the surface: a quick dip

2. A trip to objectville: yes, there will be objects

3. Know your variables: primitives and references

4. How objects behave: object state affects method behavior

5. Extra-strength methods: flow control, operations, and more

6. Using the Java library: so you don't have to write it all yourself

7. Better living in objectville: planning for the future

8. Serious polymorphism: exploiting abstract classes and interfaces

9. Life and death of an object: constructors and memory management

10. Numbers matter: math, formatting, wrappers, and statics

11. Risky behavior: exception handling

12. A very graphic story: intro to GUI, event handling, and inner classes

13. Work on your swing: layout managers and components

14. Saving objects: serialization and I/O

15. Make a connection: networking sockets and multithreading

16. Release your code: packaging and deployment

17. Distributed computing: RMI with a dash of servlets, EJB and Jini

Appendix A: Final code kitchen

Appendix B: Top ten things that didn't make it into the rest of the book