The manual has been compiled by Herbert Schildt, the author of internationally popular books on programming languages, so that the reader can quickly master the basic skills of programming in Java. Fully updated to Java Platform, Standard Edition 7, the fifth edition of this tutorial starts with covering the very basics, including compiling and running simple Java programs. It then describes the keywords and syntactic constructs that form the basis of Java as a programming language. What follows is an introduction to the most advanced Java language features, including generics and multithreaded programming. The book ends with an introduction to the Swing library. The educational and reference material presented in the book allows you to quickly and easily learn to program in Java.