Every programming language comes with a learning curve, but Java shares many similarities with C, C++ and JavaScript. Anyone with experience in any of those languages will pick up Java syntax quickly.

If you want to be a productive member of a software development team, it's important to master the key Java programming tools and technologies. These tools reach across a variety of areas, and ...

Laura Varley is the Careers editor at Silicon Republic. She has a background in technology PR and journalism and is borderline obsessed with film and television, the theatre, Marvel and Mayo GAA. She ...

In Java 101: Inheritance in Java, Part 1, you learned how to leverage inheritance for code reuse, by establishing is-a relationships between classes. Composition is a closely related programming ...

Complete your tour of JDK 5’s language features by exploring autoboxing and unboxing, the enhanced for loop, static imports, varargs, and covariant return types. This article wraps up my three-part ...