Head first Java (The Book)

[Kevin Kroll]

Well i got this book since a few days as i wanted to learn java, reading through first sides... oh snap first programm

sooo after alot of using the javac command finally the code looks like this:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class Party {
public static void main( String[] args ){
	
		Frame f = new Frame();
		Label l = new Label("Party at Tim´s");
		Button b = new Button ("You bet");
		Button c = new Button ("Shoot me");
		Panel p = new Panel ();
		p.add(l);
}
}

the book shows you a window should pop up but it doesnt pop up
Im useing JDK1.7 and Windows7

[Mack Wilmot]

That code is incomplete. hehe

[Kevin Kroll]

well ive no idea whats missing, you could tell me that as im a beginner and ive no idea why this doesnt work

[Michael Dunn]

you need to set the frame visible
you'll also need a window listener to close the frame/program
and you also need to do a lot more add(..)ing

[Mack Wilmot]

Kevin Kroll wrote:well ive no idea whats missing, you could tell me that as im a beginner and ive no idea why this doesnt work

That is just some snippet of code at the front of the book, it's not supposed to be complete. Forget that code and move on. You are not supposed to understand AWT until you get to that section of the book.

[Mansukhdeep Thind]

Concentrate on grasping the concept that the authors are trying to put through. Leave the specific packages / classes / APIs for later. Those are for later. For now, make sure you understand the following through and through(in order):

a) Declarations, Access Control

b) Object oriented paradigm (what is encapsulation of data, abstraction, inheritance etc )

c) Flow Control(for loop, do while loop)

d) Exception handling in Java

e) Method overloading & overriding.

f) String & Object classes

g) Collection Framework

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

Lots of people ask this question and get confused about the Party class.
Ignore the Party example. It is incomplete. It is simply there to show you what a class looks like. Keep going with the rest of the book.