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You're reading from Introduction to Programming Learn to program in Java with data structures, algorithms, and logic

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788839129

Length 722 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Concepts

Programming Language

Author (1):

Nick Samoylov

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Table of Contents (27) Chapters

Title Page

Dedication

Contributors

Packt Upsell

Preface

1. Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on Your Computer FREE CHAPTER

2. Java Language Basics

3. Your Development Environment Setup

4. Your First Java Project

5. Java Language Elements and Types

6. Interfaces, Classes, and Object Construction

7. Packages and Accessibility (Visibility)

8. Object-Oriented Design (OOD) Principles

9. Operators, Expressions, and Statements

10. Control Flow Statements

11. JVM Processes and Garbage Collection

12. Java Standard and External Libraries

13. Java Collections

14. Managing Collections and Arrays

15. Managing Objects, Strings, Time, and Random Numbers

16. Database Programming

17. Lambda Expressions and Functional Programming

18. Streams and Pipelines

19. Reactive Systems

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Index

There are many IDEs out there

There are many IDEs available that you can use free of charge: NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, BlueJ, DrJava, JDeveloper, JCreator, jEdit, JSource, jCRASP, and jEdit, to name a few. Each of them has followers who are convinced that their choice is the best, so we are not going to argue. It is a matter of preference, after all. We will concentrate on the three most popular ones—NetBeans, Eclipse, and IntelliJ IDEA. We will use the IntelliJ IDEA free Community Edition for our demonstrations.

We recommend reading the documentation about these and other IDEs, and even trying them out, before making your final choice. For your initial research, you can use the Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_integrated_development_environments#Java, which has a table comparing many modern IDEs.

NetBeans

NetBeans was first created in 1996 as a Java IDE student project at Charles University in Prague. In 1997, a company was created around the project...