May 2000
Beginner
726 pages
21h 42m
English
Content preview from Learning JavaBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Using This Book
This book is organized roughly as follows:
Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 provide a basic introduction to Java concepts and a tutorial to give you a jump start on Java programming.
Chapter 3 discusses tools for developing with Java (the compiler, the interpreter, the JAR file package). It also covers important concepts such as embedding Java code in HTML support and object signing.
Chapter 4 through Chapter 8 describe the Java language itself. Chapter 8 covers the language’s thread facilities, which should be of particular interest to advanced programmers.
Chapter 9 and Chapter 10 cover much of the core API. Chapter 9 describes basic utilities, and Chapter 10 covers I/O facilities.
Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 cover Java networking, including sockets, URLs, and remote method invocation (RMI).
Chapter 13 through Chapter 18 cover the Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) and Swing, which provide graphical user interface (GUI) and image support.
Chapter 19 covers the JavaBeans™ component architecture.
Chapter 20 covers applets, the area in which Java saw its initial success.
If you’re like us, you don’t read books from front to back. If you’re really like us, you usually don’t read the preface at all. However, on the off chance that you will see this in time, here are a few suggestions.
If you are an experienced programmer who has to learn Java in the next five minutes, you are probably looking for the examples. You might want to start by glancing at the tutorial in Chapter 2. If that ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.