Java Overview

Week 5, Class 2

The goals for this discussion are to understand the basic Java program constructs and how Java fits within the general computing and network contexts.

To write, compile, and run a program for any language in any computing context requires that you understand something about the file system where that program is stored, how to invoke the compiler, and how to ask the system to execute the program. This discussion will focus on these contextual issues. It will use small segments of Java code for illustrations, but the discussion of Java, proper, will not begin until the next.


Topics

The Introduction to Java Programming will include the following topics

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