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Navigating Java documentation

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From the course: Learning Java 11

Navigating Java documentation

- [Instructor] Java's official documentation is a comprehensive resource for every Java developer, but it can be daunting to newcomers. It's provided by Oracle, the company behind Java, and it serves as a reference manual for the Java programming language. These docs tell you what functionality is already built into the language and how to use it. This functionality is organized into packages and classes based on its domain. Many of the functions you'll start out using will live in the java.base package. Here, there's built-in functionality related to calculating times and file manipulation. I encourage you to explore and click into anything that sounds interesting. Let's learn about how time works in Java. The java.time package is for working with dates, times, durations, and intervals. Here, we can read up on the background of the package and how it's used. For example, if we want to store an anniversary date, we…

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