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Java for Absolute Beginners: Learn to Program the Fundamentals the Java 9+ Way
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Java for Absolute Beginners: Learn to Program the Fundamentals the Java 9+ Way

by Iuliana Cosmina
December 2018
Beginner
623 pages
13h 13m
English
Apress
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© Iuliana Cosmina 2018
Iuliana CosminaJava for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3778-6_1

1. An Introduction to Java and Its History

Iuliana Cosmina1 
(1)
Edinburgh, UK
 

Java is currently one of the most influential programming languages. It all started in 1990, when an American company that was leading the revolution in the computer industry decided to gather its best engineers together to design and develop a product that would allow them to become an important player in the new emerging Internet world. Among those engineers was James Arthur Gosling, a Canadian computer scientist who is recognized as the “father” of the Java programming language. It would take five years of design, programming, and one rename (from Oak to Java ...

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