Beginning Programming with Java For Dummies, 3rd Edition

by Barry Burd

For earlier editions, visit my main page.

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Mac users:
If you have trouble importing your projects into Eclipse, your computer might be automatically unzipping the downloaded file.
In Eclipse's Import Projects dialog, please try choosing Select root directory instead of Select archive file.
also...
When I wrote the book, Oracle was creating a version of Java 7 for your operating system. Since then, they've dropped support for OS X 10.6. There are a few things you can do about this...

I found a discussion about this problem at http://www.java.net/forum/topic/jdk/java-se-snapshots-project-feedback/failure-install-mac-os-x-1068-documented-7u4-b11. You can try tweaking your files as described in these comments.
You can visit http://jdk7.java.net/macportpreview/ and download the version of Java 7 (for Mac) that was available when I wrote the book. It should be fine for most programming purposes.
You can install Java 6 instead of Java 7. Most of the examples in my book will work with Java 6.

Errata:

In Figure 15-9, the first line of output shown in the figure is actually the program's fourth line of output. The first three lines are cherry cherry cherry, cherry cherry lemon, cherry cherry kumquat. (Thanks to Liam Roberts for finding this error)