Chapter 1. Basic Usage of Objects
To learn a natural language properly, one goes abroad to live among native speakers for some time. One learns their idioms, their preferences in choosing words, and the general feeling for the flow of the language. But even so, when composing texts afterward, one turns to thesauri for alternative formulations and to usage dictionaries to acquire a desirable style.
This first part of the book will take you on a tour among Java natives, or at least their written culture in the form of the Eclipse IDE’s code base. We will study common idioms and usages of the language constructs, so as to learn from the experts in the field. At the same time, the categorization of usages gives us a vocabulary for talking about our ...
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