About the Author

Robert Simmons, Jr. started programming when floppy disks were really floppy and 64 kilobytes of RAM was considered state of the art. From his early days of programming BASIC and Logo on an Apple IIe, he advanced through Pascal and C to arrive in the object oriented realm of C++. When Java first came out, he knew that the infant language would become a serious player amongst corporations; Robert learned Java and began using it as his primary language for programming in 1997. Although Robert is American, he lives and works as a Senior Software Architect in Germany.

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