Before we dive into the meat of this Java for beginners tutorial, it’s worth taking a moment to examine Java syntax. Java syntax refers to the way that things are written.

In a previous Java 101 tutorial, you learned how to better organize your code by declaring reference types (also known as classes and interfaces) as members of other reference types and blocks.

Java provides a way for the programmer to exercise control over memory management by marking certain objects as expendable via reference objects. Should an application’s memory requirements ...

For example, you can start a Java variable with a dollar sign or an underscore -- but nobody does that. Sometimes machine-generated code prepends a dollar sign or underscores a Java variable to ...

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 ...