Dr. James T. Streib is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science and Dr. Takako Soma is Associate Professor of Computer Science, and both are at Illinois College, Jacksonville, IL, USA. They are also co-authors of the follow-up text Guide to Data Structures.

1. Variables, Input / Output and Arithmetic.- 2. Objects: An Introduction.- 3. Selection Structures.- 4. Iteration Structures.- 5. Objects: Revisited.- Strings.- 6. Arrays.- Recursion.- 7. Objects: Inheritance and Polymorphism.- 8. Elementary File Input and Output.- 9. Simple Graphical Input and Output.- 9. Exceptions.- 10. Java doc Comments.- 11. Glossary.- 12. Answers to Selected Exercises.