This chapter introduced you to the exciting world of Java programming. We started with explaining the main terms, and then explained how to install the necessary tools, JDK and IDE, and how to configure and use them.
With a development environment in place, we provided the reader with the basics of Java as a programming language. We have described Java primitive types, the String type, and their literals. We have also defined what an identifier is, and what a variable is, and finished with a description of the main types of Java statements. All the points of the discussion were illustrated by the specific code examples.
In the next chapter, we are going to talk about the object-oriented aspects of Java. We will introduce the main concepts, explain what a class is, what an interface is, and the relationship between them. The terms overloading, overriding, and hiding will...
