William Chang

Java (programming language)
An object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are, in the official implementation, compiled to bytecode, which is compiled to native machine code at runtime. Sun Microsystems provides a GNU General Public License implementation of a Java compiler and Java virtual machine, in compliance with the specifications of the Java Community Process. One characteristic, platform independence, means that programs written in the Java language must run similarly on diverse hardware. One should be able to write a program once, compile it once, and run it anywhere.

Integrated Development Environment (IDE):

• Eclipse
• EasyEclipse (Prepackaged, Highly Recommended)

Helpful Links:

• Java Notes

Computer Science Dilemma:

• int (primitive) versus Integer (object)
• Binary Search Algorithms