1.7 Conventions Used in This Book

Table P-1 shows the coding conventions used in this book.

Table P-1. Coding Conventions

Convention	Example
Class names have initial capital letters .	public class ClassName
Method names have initial lower case, and the rest of the words have an initial capital letter.	getLength
Variable names have initial lower case, and the rest of the words have an initial capital letter.	private int length private int bufferLength

Note that, for the most part, methods are referred to without their arguments; however, arguments are included when the discussion warrants them.

Table P-2 shows the typographic conventions used in this book.

Table P-2. Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Description
courier	Indicates a command, file name, class name , method, argument, Java keyword, HTML tag, file content, code excerpt, or URL.
bold courier	Indicates a sample command-line entry.
italics	Indicates definitions, emphasis, a book title, or a variable that should be replaced with a valid value.