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Introduction to Programming

You're reading from   Introduction to Programming Learn to program in Java with data structures, algorithms, and logic

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Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788839129
Length 722 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nick Samoylov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working as a theoretical physicist and learning to program as a tool for testing his mathematical models. After the demise of the USSR, Nick created and successfully ran a software company, but was forced to close it under the pressure of governmental and criminal rackets. In 1999, with his wife Luda and two daughters, he emigrated to the USA and has been living in Colorado since then, working as a Java programmer. In his free time, Nick likes to write and hike in the Rocky Mountains.
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Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
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1. Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on Your Computer FREE CHAPTER 2. Java Language Basics 3. Your Development Environment Setup 4. Your First Java Project 5. Java Language Elements and Types 6. Interfaces, Classes, and Object Construction 7. Packages and Accessibility (Visibility) 8. Object-Oriented Design (OOD) Principles 9. Operators, Expressions, and Statements 10. Control Flow Statements 11. JVM Processes and Garbage Collection 12. Java Standard and External Libraries 13. Java Collections 14. Managing Collections and Arrays 15. Managing Objects, Strings, Time, and Random Numbers 16. Database Programming 17. Lambda Expressions and Functional Programming 18. Streams and Pipelines 19. Reactive Systems 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Chapter 16. Database Programming

This chapter explains how to write Java code that can manipulate—insert, read, update, delete—data in a database. It also provides a short introduction to the SQL language and basic database operations. 

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)?
  • How to create/delete a database
  • Short overview of Structured Query Language (SQL)
  • How to create/delete/modify a database table
  • Create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) database data
  • Exercise – Selecting unique first names
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Nick Samoylov graduated from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, working as a theoretical physicist and learning to program as a tool for testing his mathematical models. After the demise of the USSR, Nick created and successfully ran a software company, but was forced to close it under the pressure of governmental and criminal rackets. In 1999, with his wife Luda and two daughters, he emigrated to the USA and has been living in Colorado since then, working as a Java programmer. In his free time, Nick likes to write and hike in the Rocky Mountains.
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