|Navigate Language Fundamentals topic:)| The previous chapter
"Getting started" was a primer course in the basic of
understanding how Java programming works. Throughout the
chapter, we tackled with a variety of concepts that included: -
Objects and class definitions; - Abstract and data types; -
Class-level and method-level scopes; - Keywords; and, - Access
modifiers, etc. From this point on, we would be looking into the
above mentioned concepts and many more in finer detail with a
deeper and richer understanding of how each one of them works.
This chapter on Language fundamentals introduces the fundamental
elements of the Java programming language in detail. The
discussions in this chapter would use the concepts we have
already gathered from our previous discussions and build upon
them in a progressive manner. The Java programming syntax In
linguistics, the word syntax (which comes from Ancient Greek
σύνταξις where σύν [syn] means "together", and τάξις [táxis]
means "an ordering") refers to "the process of a