This free tutorial is a rundown of the basics of Java syntax, comments, variables, loops, arrays and more. You’ll be able to practice basic Java exercises and take quizzes to test your knowledge.

Java syntax basics For now, we’re not necessarily interested in how Java works as such, so much as its basic rules for writing a line of code. Java code is case sensitive.

So to learn Java lambda syntax, you need to be familiar with its three component parts: The argument list The arrow The method body To apply these concepts, we first need a functional interface. A ...

For example, I'm a fan of Lombok, which provides annotations to remove typical boilerplate for accessors and mutators in Java code, among many other features. One of those features is val - which will ...

Java’s internal systems and syntax are constantly evolving, and these changes happen primarily through the Java Community Process (JCP) and Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs).

Brian Goetz 's OpenJDK message Syntax Decision (on the lambda-dev mailing list) provides the " (mostly)" decided syntax for Java lambda expressions.