Your First Java Program

All java programs consists of at least one class. Just make sure that you've done the first chapter successfully and we should be good in running this program. The listing below shows the source code of our first program.

public class FirstProgram{
          public static void main(String args[]){
                    System.out.println("Hello! This is my first program!");
          }
}


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Getting Started

In this chapter, we will first acquire a copy of JDK (Java Development Kit) and an IDE (Integrated Development Environment). JDK is what we need to develop programs for java. Without this, we cannot compile and test what we wrote. If you want to do it the hard way, you wouldn't need an IDE but we don't want that right? IDE will help us in writing codes and debugging, but before we use an IDE, we will first learn how to do it the hard way so that you can appreciate what an IDE do for us. Okay first thing we need are:

1. Acquiring JDK and IDE at once. Why at once? Because they are already