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Ivor Hortons Beginning Java, Java 7 Edition

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

IVOR HORTON started out as a mathematician, but shortly after graduating, he was lured into messing about with computers by a well-known manufacturer. He has spent many happy years programming occasionally useful applications in a variety of languages as well as teaching mainly scientists and engineers to do likewise. He has extensive experience in applying computers to problems in engineering design and to manufacturing operations in a wide range of industries. He is the author of a number of tutorial books on programming in C, C++, and Java. When not writing programming books or providing advice to others, he leads a life of leisure.

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITORS

MARC GREGOIRE is a software engineer from Belgium. He graduated from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, with a degree in Burgerlijk ingenieur in de computer wetenschappen (equivalent to master of science in engineering in computer science). The year after, he received the cum laude degree of master in artificial intelligence at the same university. After his studies, Marc started working for a big software consultancy company called Ordina Belgium. As a consultant, he worked for Siemens and Nokia Siemens Networks on critical 2G and 3G software running on Solaris for big telecom operators. This required working in international teams stretching from South America and USA to EMEA and Asia. Now, Marc is working for Nikon Metrology on 3D scanning software.

His main expertise is C/C++, and specifically Microsoft VC++ and the MFC framework. Next to C/C++, Marc also likes C# and uses PHP for creating web pages. In addition to his main interest for Windows development, he also has experience in developing C++ programs running 24x7 on Linux platforms; for example, EIB home automation controlling and monitoring software. Since April 2007, hes received the yearly Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for his Visual C++ expertise.

Marc is an active member on the CodeGuru forum (as Marc G) and wrote some articles and FAQ entries for CodeGuru. He also creates freeware and shareware programs that are distributed through his website at www.nuonsoft.com , and maintains a blog on www.nuonsoft.com/blog/ .

AL SCHERER is a Development Manager of eCommerce Technologies at Follett Higher Education Group. He has seven years of experience designing and coding applications as a Software Architect in addition to 10 years of development experience. Al has built applications using Assembler, C, C++ and a number of other programming languages and has worked extensively in Java since Version 1.1. He holds Sun Java certifications as a Programmer, Business Components Developer and Web Components Developer. In his spare time, Al applies his passion for technology via technical writing and editing, working on nine software books over the last few years. He holds a BS in Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Northwestern University.