This two-part article, excerpted from Chapter 2 of the second edition of Thinking in Java (Prentice Hall, 2000), moves you to the point where you can write your first Java program. In Part 1 ...

In the age of Servlets and JSPs, Java’s main function took a backseat to these technologies that were initialized with a call to their init() method, and invoked through calls to their doGet() or ...

To take String input from the user with Java’s Scanner class, just follow these steps. Import java.util.*; to make Java’s Scanner class available; Use the new keyword to create an instance of the ...