Introduction

What’s your story?

check.png Are you a working stiff, interested in knowing more about the way your company’s computers work?

check.png Are you a student who needs some extra reading in order to survive a beginning computer course?

check.png Are you a typical computer user — you’ve done lots of word processing, and you want to do something more interesting with your computer?

check.png Are you a job seeker with an interest in entering the fast-paced, glamorous, high-profile world of computer programming (or, at least, the decent-paying world of computer programming)?

Well, if you want to write computer programs, this book is for you. This book avoids the snobby “of-course-you-already-know” assumptions and describes computer programming from scratch.

About This Book

The book uses Java — a powerful, general-purpose computer programming language. But Java’s subtleties and eccentricities aren’t the book’s main focus. Instead, this book emphasizes a process — the process of creating instructions for a computer to follow. Many highfalutin’ books describe the mechanics of this process — the rules, the conventions, ...

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