C h a p t e r 1 A Crash Course in Java “Hello, World ” in Java Documentation Comments Primitive Types Control Flow Statements Object References Parameter Passing Packages Basic Exception Handling Array Lists and Arrays Strings

The purpose of this chapter is to teach you the elements of Java—or to give you an opportunity to review them—assuming that you know an object-oriented programming language. In particular, you should be familiar with the concepts of classes and objects. If you know C++ an