Welcome to the web page for the book Teach Yourself Java 2 in 21 Days Professional Reference Edition, 2nd Edition by Rogers Cadenhead and Laura Lemay. The book teaches Java 2 programming to beginning- and intermediate-level programmers, fully revised for SDK 1.3.

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 trouble compiling or running their first Java program.

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

What's New

Most recent additions to this site:

• Servlets and JavaServer Pages are back online, so you can now run the Day 26 and Day 27 examples using your browser. (Dec. 9, 2003).
• The online tutorial Using the Software Development Kit on a Windows System has been updated to cover Windows 2000, NT, and XP in addition to other Windows systems. (July 27, 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).
• A Day 7 note about running Java 2 applets in popular browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. (Oct. 4, 2001).
• A Day 5 correction involving multidimensional arrays. (Oct. 4, 2001).
• An answer to a reader's Day 8 question about combo boxes. (Oct. 4, 2001).