Preface

THIS book is about creating applications for cell phones and other small devices.

Help Me Help You

The best way to learn programming is by doing it. Try something, and if it works, tweak it and try again. A good book gives you lots of things to try and tweak.

If you just read the text of this book, you’ll miss about half of the content. I put just as much sweat into making the examples clear and instructive as I put into writing the text. The best way to read this book is sitting in front of your computer, trying out the examples as you go along. You can download the source code for the book from the Web site:

http://kickbutt.jonathanknudsen.com/download.html

The examples are available for NetBeans Mobility and the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit. ...

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