This two-part article, excerpted from Chapter 2 in Thinking in Java 2nd. ed. (Prentice Hall, 2000), moves you to the point where you can write your first Java program. Bruce Eckel gives an ...

Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

Any method you can conjure up takes an object and returns an object that fulfills the Java Function contract. How to use Java’s Function interface. For this Java Function interface example, we will ...