Hello Dr Java !

a friend prompted me to do small java projects ...
and then later we could develop some revenue earning applications!

tot it wud be a nice experience to learn java.

i know a lil bit of javascript, and to my first hand knowledge java is different frm javascript!

i downloaded few ppt abt intro to java to begin wit yest night, came across a software called Dr Java!!

itseems we need a java runtime environment(JRE) to basically run our java program

a JDK( java development kit) is a softy used to create and run our java prog.

JRE is part of JDK
the resources i refered to sugested tat we'll have to run our .java programs on terminal using cmds to first need to tell d terminal whr our java compiler is present using export cmd
and then, compile it using javac cmd , and then a .class file is created, we run this using cmd
java file_name


we've an alternate option!

tat is Integrated Development Environment (IDE) , this provides us a much easier interface to write edit compile run java code.

the most popular IDE is Dr Java

i installed it yesterday, bt not able to run even a hello world program as yet :P

hopefully i'll make good progress in next few days...