Installing JDK Now we have to install JDK. GO to this Link and download and install your required JDK. Setup your IDE First we have to choose our IDE for our programming. There are some good IDE’s for JAVA. Such as: ü Netbeans ü IntelliJ IDEA etc. We are preferring IntelliJ Idea for our work. Go to this Link and download and install the community edition for free. Setup IDEA At first we will open our newly installed IDEA. Then we have to look at the bottom of the front page. Click on configure and go to project defaults. Then go to project and look at SDK. You should see there is no SDK is configured. Now click on new and locate the JDK folder you recently installed. You might find it at C:\Program Files. Now sele...
In this part of the course, we are going to talk about variables. A 'variable' is something that makes a computer program very useful. So what is a 'variable'? Well a variable is a 'place' in memory think of it like a 'box' if you will that you can store something in. And the computer allows you to have hundreds or thousands of 'boxes', each containing their own pieces of information. So what we do with our 'variable', that's what it's called in Java, that 'box' is called a 'variable', and what we can do is we can assign the type of information that we want to put into the 'boxes' and we can also give it a name. So why would we want to use variables? Well the reason that we want to use them, is because they make a program really useful. If, for example, if there was a computer program that you wanted to create that helped calculate someone's current age based on the date, then o...