Like any human language, Java provides a way to express concepts. If successful, this medium of expression will be significantly easier and more flexible than the alternatives as problems grow larger and more complex.
You can’t look at Java as just a collection of features – some of the features make no sense in isolation. You can use the sum of the parts only if you are thinking about design, not simply coding. And to understand Java in this way, you must understand the problems with it and with programming in general. This tutorial discusses programming problems, why they are problems, and the approach Java has taken to solve them.
Prerequisites:
This tutorial assumes that you have some programming familiarity. Of course, the book will be easier for the C programmers and more so for the C++ programmers. I’ll be introducing the concepts of object-oriented programming (OOP) and Java’s basic control mechanisms.
Chapters:
Here is a brief description of the chapters contained in the tutorial.
