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Up-to-Date, Essential Java Programming Skills -- Made Easy!Fully updated for Java Platform, Standard Edition 9 (Java SE 9) , Java: A Beginner's Guide, Seventh Edition, gets you started programming in Java right away. Bestselling programming author Herb Schildt begins with the basics, such as how to create, compile, and run a Java program. He then moves on to the keywords, syntax, and constructs that form the core of the Java language. The book also covers some of Java's more advanced features, including multithreaded programming, generics, lambda expressions, Swing, and JavaFX. This practical Oracle Press guide features details on Java SE 9's innovative new module system, and, as an added bonus, it includes an introduction to JShell, Java's new interactive programming tool.
About the Author
Called "one of the world's foremost authors of books about programming" by International Developer magazine, best-selling author Herbert Schildt has written about programming for over three decades. His books have sold millions of copies worldwide and have been widely translated. Featured as one of the rock star programmers in Ed Burns' book "Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers", Schildt is interested in all facets of computing, but his primary focus is computer languages. He is the author of numerous books on Java, C, C , and C#. Schildt holds BA and MCS degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana/Champaign.
