CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface xv
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Chapter 1 A Context-Sensitive Introduction 1
6. Chapter 2 Event-Driven Programming 85
7. Chapter 3 Smalltalk and the Squeak Environment 117
8. Chapter 4 C++ and Java Commonalities and Similarities 171
9. Chapter 5 Additional Concepts from the C++ Language 253
10. Chapter 6 Visual Studio and the Microsoft Foundation Classes 327
11. Chapter 7 Java and the Swing Library 395
12. Chapter 8 C# and the Common Language Infrastructure 499
13. Chapter 9 Python 593
14. Appendix A Event-Driven Project Ideas 665
15. Appendix B Answers to Odd-Numbered Exercises 673
16. Appendix C About the CD-ROM 713
17. Index 717