You're reading from Learn Java 17 Programming Learn the fundamentals of Java Programming with this updated guide with the latest features

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803241432

Length 748 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Java design patterns

Concepts

Object Oriented Programming

Author (1):

Nick Samoylov

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Overview of Java Programming

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Java 17 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Java Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)

4. Chapter 3: Java Fundamentals

5. Part 2: Building Blocks of Java

6. Chapter 4: Exception Handling

7. Chapter 5: Strings, Input/Output,and Files

8. Chapter 6: Data Structures, Generics, and Popular Utilities

9. Chapter 7: Java Standard and External Libraries

10. Chapter 8: Multithreading and Concurrent Processing

11. Chapter 9: JVM Structure and Garbage Collection

12. Chapter 10: Managing Data in a Database

13. Chapter 11: Network Programming

14. Chapter 12: Java GUI Programming

15. Part 3: Advanced Java

16. Chapter 13: Functional Programming

17. Chapter 14: Java Standard Streams

18. Chapter 15: Reactive Programming

19. Chapter 16: Java Microbenchmark Harness

20. Chapter 17: Best Practices for Writing High-Quality Code

21. Assessments

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 1: Getting Started with Java 17

This chapter is about how to start learning Java 17 and Java in general. We will begin with the basics, first explaining what Java is and its main terms, followed by how to install the necessary tools to write and run (execute) a program. In this respect, Java 17 is not much different from the previous Java versions, so this chapter’s content applies to the older versions too.

We will describe and demonstrate all the necessary steps for building and configuring a Java programming environment. This is the bare minimum that should have on your computer to start programming. We also describe the basic Java language constructs and illustrate them with examples that can be executed immediately.

The best way to learn a programming language—or any language, for that matter—is to use it, and this chapter guides readers on how they can do this with Java. We will cover the following topics in this chapter: