Chapter 4Plugins Have Variables, Functions, and Keywords
In this chapter we’ll take care of a lot of the basics of writing Java code. With these tools in your toolbox, you’ll know the following:
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What the funny characters mean in Java
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How to use variables to hold number and character string values
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How to declare and use functions: lists of Java instructions
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How to control code with if, for, and while statements
As you may have noticed, there’s a lot of text in the plugin source code that I haven’t explained yet. Let’s dig deeper into Java and take a look at what all that text means—it’s the raw material of programming plugins.
As you saw in Chapter 3, Build and Install a Plugin , a program in Java is just a text file. Look at the ...
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