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Java Programming for Beginners

By : SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff
Book Image

Java Programming for Beginners

By: SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff

Overview of this book

Java is an object-oriented programming language, and is one of the most widely accepted languages because of its design and programming features, particularly in its promise that you can write a program once and run it anywhere. Java Programming for Beginners is an excellent introduction to the world of Java programming, taking you through the basics of Java syntax and the complexities of object-oriented programming. You'll gain a full understanding of Java SE programming and will be able to write Java programs with graphical user interfaces that run on PC, Mac, or Linux machines. This book is full of informative and entertaining content, challenging exercises, and dozens of code examples you can run and learn from. By reading this book, you’ll move from understanding the data types in Java, through loops and conditionals, and on to functions, classes, and file handling. The book finishes with a look at GUI development and training on how to work with XML. The book takes an efficient route through the Java landscape, covering all of the core topics that a Java developer needs. Whether you’re an absolute beginner to programming, or a seasoned programmer approaching an object-oriented language for the first time, Java Programming for Beginners delivers the focused training you need to become a Java developer.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Swing GUIs

NetBeans is a powerful program that offers a lot of functionality, and we access this functionality through a GUI and the menus and buttons provided by NetBeans. In theory, we could have chosen to operate NetBeans as a command-line program, but in order to use NetBeans like that, we would have to memorize or look up a large library of specific commands for every action we would want to take. A powerful and well-written application has a streamlined interface that will guide us toward important functionality and make it easy for us to access it. The JDK contains a Java extension library, the swing library, which makes it very easy for us to wrap our own code in GUIs like the one NetBeans has.

The JFrame class

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