Revolutionizing the CS2 course, this innovative book teaches programming concepts and techniques essential for working in a modern software development environment. This set of concepts includes the software life cycle, requirements and specification, object-oriented design and programming, exception handling, streams, user interface design, event-driven programming, threads, and networking. While also teaching the fundamental concepts of data structures, the authors change the traditional emphasis from how to design and build them to learning how to analyze and use them. It presents a chapter on the Java Collection Framework and emphasizes that, today, most important data structures already exist in program libraries. This treatment of data structures gives students the information they need to make an informed decision about which classes in the framework are most appropriate for their needs while freeing up significant blocks of time for the treatment of other essential topics. Read Less