01b Tools Needed for Java Programming

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01 Getting Started
     a What Is Java?
     b Tools Needed
     c Getting Set Up For Java
     d Testing The Set Up

02 Concepts
03 Variables & Data Types
04 Control Logic
05 Modifiers
06 GUI
07 Other Useful Classes
08 Handling Events
09 Handling Exceptions
10 Project 01 - Mortg Calc
11 More on Applets
12 Layout Manager
13 Project 02 - Calculator
14 Threads
15 Project 03 - Wake Up
16 File I/O
17 Project 04 - File I/O

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Tools Needed

The minimal tools needed for this is

jdk - the Java Development Kit which is available free from http://java.sun.com
Text Editor - Notepad or WordPad can be used. Be sure that when you save files, that you don't let it default to the extension ".txt". You will have to save with the extension ".java". MS Word can be used if you save the documents as "Plain Text" files using the extension ".java".
A web browser - Internet Explorer or the Navigator will be sufficient. The web browse must be Java enabled.

In this tutorial we will be using just the Windows cmd line for compiling and running. There are available some development environments, some free, that can make writing java programs easier. However, learning how to use that environment will increase the learning time. After getting a basic understanding of the Java language itself, you might want to investigate some of these development environments. The Netbeans IDE offered by http://java.sun.com and the Eclipse IDE offered by http://www.eclipse.org are 2 excellent free environments.

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