Preface
“The chief merit of language is clearness...”
—Galen
Welcome to the Java programming language and Java How to Program, Tenth Edition! This book presents leading-edge computing technologies for students, instructors and software developers. It’s appropriate for introductory academic and professional course sequences based on the curriculum recommendations of the ACM and the IEEE, and for AP Computer Science exam preparation. If you haven’t already done so, please read the back cover and inside back cover—these concisely capture the essence of the book. In this Preface we provide more detail.
We focus on software engineering best practices. At the heart of the book is the Deitel signature “live-code approach”—rather than using code snippets, ...
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