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Given its tendency toward verbosity and strict syntax, it might not be the best idea to teach Java as an introductory programming language. Accessible alternatives to Java -- like Python -- exist and ...

What Is a Global Variable? A computer program is, essentially, a list of instructions for a computer to carry out when you run it. However, most programs are complex enough that they outgrow a ...

This article is the first in a four-part Java 101 series exploring Java threads. Although you might think threading in Java would be challenging to grasp, I intend to show you that threads are ...

Assertions, introduced in Java 1.4, remain one of the most useful and important additions to the Java language. Assertions are used to codify the requirements that render a program correct or not.

Two decades of large-scale investment in Java's developing language and platform is strikingly rare in the history of languages.