Java Anyone?

Java Anyone? 

This week’s post is about a very interesting programming language that most everyone in the world (even non techies) has heard about, JAVA! 

JAVA is a high level class based, object oriented language that has been around since 1995. Because it has been around for so long (almost 30 years), there is LOTS of documentation and tutorials etc. on it. Object Oriented Programming (OOP for short) is a methodology for programming that involves objects and classes and allows for simpler development.  

Anyone wanting to learn about software development should certainly check out and learn about JAVA. So how do you “get” JAVA? Lets find out! 

Luckily, JAVA is open source so that means it is FREE! You do not need to pay anything to get JAVA.  

First we will go to https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads/ to download JAVA19 (this is the newest stable release of JAVA) 

After that you will want to grab a JAVA Editor such as NetBeans or Eclipse (linked below) 

        NetBeans  https://www.netbeans.org/index.html. 

       Eclipse  https://www.eclipse.org/. 

That is all you need to start programming in JAVA! There are TONS of great JAVA articles, videos and  tutorials around the web just a search away however many find “The JAVA Tutorials” https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/index.html  by Oracle to be very helpful.  It is almost a "rule" that the first thing a student learning JAVA does is complete the "Hello World" program. The JAVA Tutorials has a great instruction set for that project using NetBeans. Check it out and leave any comments or questions below!

Until next time,  

Happy Coding!