Welcome to the Web page for the book Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days, Second Edition by Laura Lemay and Rogers Cadenhead. The book teaches Java 2 programming to beginners and experienced programmers, with an emphasis on how Java is being used today.

Features

• A chapter from the book: Chapter 1, 21st Century Java
• The table of contents
• Download the book's source code
• Order the Book from Amazon.Com
• An online tutorial, Using the Software Development Kit on a Windows System, for people having problems using the kit for the first time to compile and run Java programs.

Use these links for information related to a specific day in the book:

What's New

Most recent additions to this site:

• The online tutorial Using the Software Development Kit on a Windows System has been updated to cover Windows NT, 2000, and XP in addition to other Windows systems. (July 27, 2002)
• A correction to the Multidimension Arrays section of Day 5. (June 9, 2002).
• An answer to a reader's Day 8 question about fontmanager problems when running Swing applications. (May 28, 2002).
• A Day 5 correction to the description of the DayCounter project. (Feb. 19, 2002)
• A new sample program for Day 11, MouseTest, which answers a reader question about how to detect right button and middle button mouse clicks in Java. (Feb. 7, 2002)
• An answer to a reader's Day 4 question about solving an exercise using StringTokenizer. (Feb. 6, 2002)
• An answer to a reader's Day 9 question about the pack() method used in the Info application. (March 6, 2001)
• BurmaShave, a new Day 10 example program that demonstrates the use of card layout. (Dec. 1, 2000)
• Two new exercises for Day 16. (Nov. 19, 2000)
• A Day 19 clarification regarding how to display components in the WebMenu applet. (Nov. 18, 2000)