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Use the Java API documentation

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Use the Java API documentation

Learning how to program in Java is a combination of learning the base language, plus learning about the different libraries, the APIs that contain all the classes and interfaces that are building blocks for your application. There's a lot of functionality available, and getting to the documentation, so you can learn how to use it, is critical. IntelliJ IDEA gives you some basic documentation tools that are pre-configured. You can place the cursor in the name of any class that's a part of the core JDK, and then press control J on Mac, or control Q on Windows, and you'll see a popup window that shows you some of the documentation, but it isn't complete. If you want the extensive, complete documentation, it's best to go online to make sure you're getting the most recent version. I'll go to a browser, and I'm going to search for this string: 'java api docs 13', for the version. And then I'll go to this webpage.…

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