Reading material
Pages 1-78 (Chapter 1 is background material) and 561-565.
Additional material
Detailed instructions to help you run your first Java program
can be found here.
Code convention: do not use magic numbers (numbers different from
0, 1, -1 and 2) in your code but declare them as constants (see page 64).
The API (application programmer interface) of the String
class can be found here.
Question
Do the lesson "Your First Cup of Java" described
here.