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Java Cookbook
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Java Cookbook

by Ian F. Darwin
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
888 pages
21h 1m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

If you know a little Java™, great. If you know more Java, even better! This book is ideal for anyone who knows some Java and wants to learn more.

I started programming in C in 1980 while working at the University of Toronto, and C served me quite well through the 1980s and into the 1990s. In 1995, as the nascent language Oak was being renamed Java, I had the good fortune to be told about it by my colleague J. Greg Davidson. I sent an email to the address Greg provided, and got this mail back:

From scndprsn.Eng.Sun.COM!jag Wed Mar 29 19:43:54 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 16:47:51 +0800
From: jag@scndprsn.Eng.Sun.COM (James Gosling)
To: ian@scooter.Canada.Sun.COM, ian@darwinsys.com
Subject: Re: WebRunner
Cc: goltz@sunne.East.Sun.COM
Content-Length: 361
Status: RO
X-Lines: 9
 
> Hi. A friend told me about WebRunner(?), your extensible network
> browser. It and Oak(?) its extention language, sounded neat. Can
> you please tell me if it's available for play yet, and/or if any
> papers on it are available for FTP?
 
Check out http://java.sun.com
(oak got renamed to java and webrunner got renamed to
 hotjava to keep the lawyers happy)

I downloaded HotJava and began to play with it. At first I wasn’t sure about this newfangled language, which looked like a mangled C/C++. I wrote test and demo programs, sticking them a few at a time into a directory that I called javasrc to keep it separate from my C source (as often the programs would have the same name). And as I learned more about Java, ...

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