Learning in Java as a beginner.

David Shin
2 min readMar 13, 2021
  • Java is a Programming language

What is Java? Java is one of the popular programming languages that still use in development. It’s first built-in 1995(First public implementation), and originally created by James Goslin in 1991. With a similar name JavaScript, some people might think that JavaScript came from Java, and the irony to that is false because it is a totally different language. Java is an object-oriented program and uses in server-side, mobile(android), front-end, and in many applications.

  • Enviroment

In order to use java on your computers, at least two programs are needed to install. First is called,

  1. JDK(Java Development Kit):

is a software development environment used for developing Java applications and applets. it includes the Java Runtime Environment(JRE), and interpreter/loader(Java), a compiler(javac), an archiver(jar). a documentation generator(Javadoc) and other tools needed in Java development.

2. IDE(Integrated development environment):

IDE simply means a code editor, and famously there are two Java IDEs are in use, Eclipse, and IntelliJ. Eclipse is a java based open-source platform that enables the creation of highly customized IDEs from plug-in components. The platform is user-friendly for beginners and also suitable for the creation of more sophisticated applications. IntelliJ is more suitable to a commercial Java with also free and open source community version. The lightweight IntelliJ IDE offers JUnit and TestNG, code completion, support for multiple refactoring and code inspections.

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