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About the Author

CAY S. HORSTMANN is VP of Technology at Preview Systems and professor for computer science at San Jose State University. He has written six books on C++, Java, and object-oriented development.

GARY CORNELL has a Ph.D. from Brown University and has been a visiting scientist at IBM Watson Labs. He has written or co-written 20 popular computer books and articles for many developer magazines. He currently directs the program for Modern Visual Programming at the University of Connecticut.