Java Illuminated, 5th Edition

CHAPTER 1Introduction to Programming and the Java Language

CHAPTER CONTENTS

• Introduction

• 1.1 Basic Computer Concepts

  • 1.1.1 Hardware

  • 1.1.2 Operating Systems

  • 1.1.3 Application Software

  • 1.1.4 Computer Networks and the Internet

• 1.2 Practice Activity: Displaying System Configuration

  • 1.2.1 Displaying Windows Configuration Information

  • 1.2.2 Displaying Mac OS Configuration Information

• 1.3 Data Representation

  • 1.3.1 Binary Numbers

  • 1.3.2 Using Hexadecimal Numbers to Represent Binary Numbers

  • 1.3.3 Representing Characters with the Unicode Character Set

• 1.4 Programming Languages

  • 1.4.1 High- and Low-Level Languages

  • 1.4.2 An Introduction to Object-Oriented ...