Java Tutorial A Short Course on the Basics (4th Edition) (Paperback (Trade Paper)) Product Description
Java Tutorial A Short Course on the Basics (4th Edition) With an accompanying CD-Rom containing sample code, the complete tutorial and the Java Developers Kit, this combination of book and disc provides step-by-step tuition on Java 5.0. Sharon Zakhour,the Java Tutorial team lead, has worked at Sun as a senior technical writer for seven years. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Computer Science and has worked as a programmer, developer support engineer, and technical writer for more than 20 years. Scott Hommelis a technical writer on staff at Sun Microsystems, where he documents the Java Platform, Standard Edition. Since 1999, he has contributed to every major release of the JDK, mostly in the form of API spec clarifications and core release documentation. Jacob Royalhas a masters degree in IT and an MBA in Information Systems. He has written administratortrades guides, API references, programmertrades guides and has identified new tools and developed code and writing standards for various companies including Lucent Technologies and Autodesk. Isaac Rabinovitchis a freelance technical writer. He has written usertrades manuals, programmertrades guides, administratortrades manuals, API references, release notes, and support documentation at Sun, Borland, SGI, and many other companies. Thomas Risserwas educated in physics at Harvard (B.A.) and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.). He has been a technical writer in the computer industry for 15 years. Mark Hoeberis a former senior technical writer at Sun Microsystems. He has worked as a technical writer for twelve years, focusing on documentation for software developers and system administrators. Since the release of the original Java Development Kit in May of 1995, the engineering team at Sun Microsystems has been hard at work improving and enhancing the Java platform. The publication of this edition coincides with the release of Version 6 of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) and reflects the API of that release. This edition introduces new features added to the Java platform since the publication of the third edition (under release 1.3), such as a chapter on generics and information on annotations. There are new chapters on Java Web Start, the platform environment, and regular expressions. Most chapters, such as Concurrency (formerly Threads), IO, Object-Oriented Programming Concepts, and Language Basics, have been completely rewritten. Collections has been brought out of the appendix and into its own chapter. A new appendix contains information on how to prepare for the Java Programming Language Certification exam. All of the material has been thoroughly reviewed by members of engineering to ensure that the information is accurate and up to date. Like the previous editions, this book is based on the online tutorial hosted at Sun Microsystems Web site httpjava.sun.comdocsbookstutorialindex.html The information in this book--often referred to a
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Java Tutorial A Short Course on the Basics (4th Edition) (Paperback (Trade Paper))
