Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days

Charles L. Perkins is the founder of Virtual Rendezvous, a company building what it spent two

years designing: a software layer above Java that will foster socially focused, computer-mediated,

real-time filtered interactions between people’s personas in the virtual environments of the near

future. In previous lives, he has evangelized NeXTSTEP, Smalltalk, and UNIX, and has degrees

in both physics and computer science. Before attempting this book, he was an amateur

columnist and author. He’s done research in speech recognition, neural nets, gestural user

interfaces, computer graphics, and language theory, but had the most fun working at Thinking

Machines and Xerox PARC’s Smalltalk group. In his spare time, he reads textbooks for fun.

You can reach him via e-mail at 

[e-mail]

, or visit his Java page at 

http://

rendezvous.com/java

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