Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days

Conventions Used in This Book

Text that you type and text that should appear on your screen is presented in 

monospace

 type:

It will look like this.

to mimic the way text looks on your screen. Variables and placeholders will appear in 

monospace

italic

.

The end of each chapter offers common questions asked about that day’s subject matter with

answers from the authors.

Web Sites for Further Information

Before, while, and after you read this book, there are two Web sites that may be of interest to

you as a Java developer.

The official Java web site is at 

http://java.sun.com/

. At this site, you’ll find the Java

development software, the HotJava web browser, and online documentation for all aspects of

the Java language. It has several mirror sites that it lists online, and you should probably use the

site “closest” to you on the Internet for your downloading and Java Web browsing. There is also

a site for developer resources, called Gamelan, at 

http://www.gamelan.com/

.

This book also has a companion Web site at 

http://www.lne.com/Web/Java/

. Information at

that site includes examples, more information and background for this book, corrections to this

book, and other tidbits that were not included here.

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