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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Who Should Read This Book</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="core.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.74.0"/></head><body><div class="sect1" title="Who Should Read This Book"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="I_sect1_id556853"/>Who Should Read This Book</h1></div></div></div><p><a id="idx10002" class="indexterm"/>This book is for computer professionals, students, technical
people, and Finnish hackers. It’s for everyone who has a need for hands-on
experience with the Java language with an eye toward building real
applications. This book could also be considered a crash course in
object-oriented programming, networking, GUIs, and XML. As you learn about
Java, you’ll also learn a powerful and practical approach to software
development, beginning with a deep understanding of the fundamentals of
Java and its APIs.</p><p>Superficially, Java looks like C or C++, so you’ll have a tiny head
start in using this book if you have some experience with one of these
languages. If you do not, don’t worry. Don’t make too much of the
syntactic similarities between Java and C or C++. In many respects, Java
acts like more dynamic languages such as Smalltalk and Lisp. Knowledge of
another object-oriented programming language should certainly help,
although you may have to change some ideas and unlearn a few habits. Java
is considerably simpler than languages such as C++ and Smalltalk. If you
learn well from concise examples and personal experimentation, we think
you’ll like this book.</p><p>The last part of this book branches out to discuss Java in the
context of web applications, web services, and XML processing, so you
should be familiar with the basic ideas behind web browsers, servers, and
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