October 2014
Beginner to intermediate
418 pages
11h 30m
English
Content preview from Java in a Nutshell, 6th Edition
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Chapter 2. Java Syntax from the Ground Up
This chapter is a terse but comprehensive introduction to Java syntax. It is written primarily for readers who are new to the language but have some previous programming experience. Determined novices with no prior programming experience may also find it useful. If you already know Java, you should find it a useful language reference. The chapter includes some comparisons of Java to C and C++ for the benefit of programmers coming from those languages.
This chapter documents the syntax of Java programs by starting at the very lowest level of Java syntax and building from there, covering increasingly higher orders of structure. It covers:
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The characters used to write Java programs and the encoding of those characters.
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Literal values, identifiers, and other tokens that comprise a Java program.
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The data types that Java can manipulate.
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The operators used in Java to group individual tokens into larger expressions.
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Statements, which group expressions and other statements to form logical chunks of Java code.
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Methods, which are named collections of Java statements that can be invoked by other Java code.
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Classes, which are collections of methods and fields. Classes are the central program element in Java and form the basis for object-oriented programming. Chapter 3 is devoted entirely to a discussion of classes and objects.
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Packages, which are collections of related classes.
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Java programs, which consist of one or more interacting ...
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