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Java Fundamentals

By : Gazihan Alankus, Rogério Theodoro de Brito, Basheer Ahamed Fazal, Vinicius Isola, Miles Obare
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Java Fundamentals

By: Gazihan Alankus, Rogério Theodoro de Brito, Basheer Ahamed Fazal, Vinicius Isola, Miles Obare

Overview of this book

Since its inception, Java has stormed the programming world. Its features and functionalities provide developers with the tools needed to write robust cross-platform applications. Java Fundamentals introduces you to these tools and functionalities that will enable you to create Java programs. The book begins with an introduction to the language, its philosophy, and evolution over time, until the latest release. You'll learn how the javac/java tools work and what Java packages are - the way a Java program is usually organized. Once you are comfortable with this, you'll be introduced to advanced concepts of the language, such as control flow keywords. You'll explore object-oriented programming and the part it plays in making Java what it is. In the concluding chapters, you'll get to grips with classes, typecasting, and interfaces, and understand the use of data structures, arrays, strings, handling exceptions, and creating generics. By the end of this book, you will have learned to write programs, automate tasks, and follow advanced courses on algorithms and data structures or explore more advanced Java courses.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Java Fundamentals
Preface

Summary


In this lesson, we have learned that interfaces are a way for us to define a set of methods that all classes implementing them must provide specific implementations for. Interfaces can be used to implement events and listeners in your code when a specific action occurs.

We then learned that typecasting is a way for us to change a variable of one type to another type, as long as they are on the same hierarchy tree or implement a common interface.

We also looked at the use of the instanceof operator and the Object class in Java, and learned the concepts of autoboxing, unboxing, abstract classes, and abstract methods in Java.

In the next lesson, we will look at a few common classes and data structures that come with Java.