Data Structures in Java: Part 7, The Comparable Interface, Part 1 San Antonio TX

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Java Programming, Lecture Notes #1362 * Preface * Preview * Discussion and Sample Programs * Summary * What's Next -----------------------------------

Preface

This is the seventh lesson in a miniseries on Java data structures and the Java Collections Framework. The first lesson in the miniseries was entitled Data Structures in Java: Part 1, Getting Started. The previous lesson was entitled Data Structures in Java: Part 6, Duplicate Elements, Ordered Collections, Sorted Collections, and Interface Specialization.

The purpose of this miniseries is to help you learn the essential features of Object-Oriented data structures in Java using the Collections Framework.

This is also the first lesson in a sub-series on the Comparable interface. The purpose of the lessons in the sub-series is to teach you about the interactions between the Comparable interface and the Collections Framework, particularly with respect to the Set, SortedSet, and SortedMap interfaces of the Collections Framework.

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