Saturday, March 22, 2008

Start Learning Java- Tutorial 1 Introduction

Java is a programming language just like C ,C++ etc. If you know the difference between C and C++ i can tell you that Java is more closer to C++. Learning Java is easy. Having said that Java is vast and just like you can never master English perfectly in your lifetime you cannot master Java perfectly in your lifetime. But this tutorial is to provide you good grasp on fundamentals of Java. And then later it will give you pointers in more advanced topics in Java. This will give you a good working knowledge of java with which you can proceed further.

Let us first start with the best tools available in the market. First i need a editor to work with Java. Just like you use Word to make your documents. When i am comparing to Word it means that this is not a necessary stuff but just makes our life easier.

So this editor is called Eclipse. This is the best available around. The reason i want you to download this is not because it is the best but it is also a very simple one. It is free and you can download it from Eclipse site here.
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
Download any one version of Eclipse. Now we have downloaded the editor we need the Java Runtime Environment to run java programs. Consider this as a library which will help your computer understand Java. Download it from Sun site here.
http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
Download and install Java jdk update 6 in this page and install it. Now we are ready to proceed.

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