When learning a new programming language, starting with the most basic of language features is best. These features are comments, identifiers (with reserved words as a subset), types, variables, and literals. This chapter introduces you to these features in a Java context.
It’s important to document your source code so that you and anyone else who might maintain it in the future can understand the code’s purpose. Our brains tend to forget things as we age, and we may not understand ...
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