1.3 Programming Basics
’The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
’To talk of many things:
Of shoes–and ships–and sealing wax–
Of cabbages–and kings … ’
—LEWIS CARROLL, Through the Looking-Glass
Programming is a creative process. We cannot tell you exactly how to write a program to do whatever task you might want it to perform. However, we can give you some techniques that experienced programmers have found to be extremely helpful. In this section, we discuss some basics of these techniques. They apply to programming in almost any programming language and are not particular to Java.
Object-Oriented Programming
Java is an object-oriented programming language, abbreviated OOP. What is OOP? The world around us is made up of objects, such as people, ...
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