Preface

“Live in fragments no longer, only connect.”

—Edgar Morgan Foster

Welcome to Java and Java for Programmers! At Deitel & Associates, we write programming language professional books and textbooks for Prentice Hall, deliver corporate training worldwide and develop Internet businesses. This book was a joy to create. It reflects recent changes to the Java language and to the preferred ways of teaching and learning programming.

Features

Here’s some key features of Java for Programmers:

• The book uses Java Standard Edition 6; we carefully audited the manuscript against the Java Language Specification.

• The book is object-oriented throughout and the treatment of OOP is clear and accessible.

• The early classes and objects presentation features ...

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