Absolute Beginner's Guide to Programming, Third Edition

Chapter 20. Java Programming

In This Chapter

• Introducing Java

• Java Provides Executable Content

• Multiplatform Executable Content

• The Java Usage Summary

• The Security Issue

• Give Java a Spin

• Visual J++: A Sample Java System

• The Java Language Specifics

• Exception Handling

The world of Web pages gained an unexpected boost in capabilities when the Java language was introduced. Originally designed for embedded programming applications such as the programs inside automobile computer modules, Java quickly became the standard language used to activate Web pages. Java almost single-handedly rescued static HTML-based Web pages and turned the Web into an interactive medium.

If you plan to work as a programmer on Web-based applications, you will have to learn Java. ...