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The author of the book says in the Preface: The book is a textbook about information technology (informatics), the discipline of which is shaping parallel with the stormy development of computer and software technologies. Informatics is a structural science like mathematics. Informatics permeates many fields of applications and almost all science disciplines. It means that the basic concepts of informatics must be controlled by more and more people. The book consists of five parts: Introduction (2 Tutorial Units), foundations of Programming (10 TUs), Algorithms and Software Technology (6 TUs), applications (4 TUs), outlook (2 TUs). Topics (TU) of the Introduction are: Computer systems and informatics; Internet, WWW and HTML. Topics of the part two are lectured by using the programming language Java of the Internet. TUs are: Introduction (to Java); Objects and classes (2 TUs); Events and attributes; Operations; Controlling structures; Inheritance and polymorphism; Interfaces, packages, events; Data structures; Persistence. Units of the third part are: Algorithms and their verification; Program testing; Document revision and development process improving; Expenditures of algorithms; Lists and trees; Searching and sorting. The fourth part contains the following Tutorial Units: Dialogs; Input/Output; Commercial/Technical (applications); Graphics/Multimedia. The specific worth of the book is that the concepts and the notations are separated. Concepts describe the theory, notations describe the practical transformation of the theory. Tools of the notation are: UML, Java and C++. Fundamentals of programming are represented by the language Java. Most important concepts of Java are thorough discussed. This part of the book can be, therefore, considered a programming textbook for Java with important peculiarities: Emphasis is on the object oriented characteristic and not on the syntax or procedures; Many graphical and multimedia applications and user interface surfaces are represented. Three appendices and four indices close the book. Two CD-ROMs are attached to the book. CD-ROM 1 contains the solution of the exercises and the programs included in the book, a glossary, as well as demonstration or full versions of compilers and other software of CASE-manufacturers. CD-ROM 2 contains tools and compilers for integrated development of analysis models and programs for running. The appearance of the book with content pointers and color pictograms on the margin is modern and practical.