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For 2023 (and 2024 ...) - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Hello World - a good traditional start to a Java course

All programming courses, it seems, start with a "Hello World" program. It's almost a tradition and while I'm not one of those people who follows traditions just for their sake, traditions usually are founded on good reason. This one is, and we follow it!

When you come new to a programming language, you want to see an overview of the picture of how it works very quickly. You want to see how to write the source code, what the shortest program looks like, and also how to store, compile (if necessary) and run the program. You want to make sure that all your tools such as compilers, virtual machines (whatever they are / if your need them) and run time libraries exist and are correctly loaded, and that everything is on the right path and with the right permissions. Most of these things will be automatically there in most cases ... but you need to be reassured and to check with the shortest of programs. Take the car out for a test drive before you start any real journeys!

On yesterday's Learning to Program in Java course, we started off with a look at the Java environment - JVM, JRE, JDK and put components such as the java compiler and jvm ('java') into place. Then we wrote this simple program into a file called Adam.java

public class Adam {
  public static void main(String [] args) {
    System.out.println("Ello Wurld");
  }
}


and compiled and ran it:

Dorothy-2:java grahamellis$ javac Adam.java
Dorothy-2:java grahamellis$ java Adam
Ello Wurld
Dorothy-2:java grahamellis$


It might all look very basic - but even here there are some traps to catch the unwary - for example:

• To compile you do give the extension as you're giving a file name in the current directory.

• To run, you do NOT give an extension as it's looking for a path on the CLASSPATH which may be a file, or it may be within a jar.

During the course, I said a lot more - filled the class in on lots of other things and had them writing other and more complex code once we had the test drive out of the way. With Java , a language that's really very much better for the substantial application that the one liner, the structuring into functions is vital from day one, as is the interfacing to other resources and by the middle of the day we had progressed from a program called Adam to oe called Chloe - with command line inputs, variables, calculations, internal methods and more. If you want to take a look at Chloe, she's here.
(written 2009-09-22)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
J702 - Hello Java World
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G504 - Well House Consultants - Writing Notes
  [4] Seeing the wood for the trees. - (2004-08-06)
  [7] Writing on a Sunday - (2004-08-08)
  [9] Study room - the Oxford train - (2004-08-10)
  [394] A year on - should we offer certified PHP courses - (2005-07-28)
  [398] Training course material - why we write our own - (2005-07-30)
  [407] Theft of training material - (2005-08-09)
  [797] Writing up new C / C++ notes. - (2006-07-09)
  [979] Empty seats, Nodding Donkeys and buses - (2006-12-11)
  [982] Notes from the white board - (2006-12-14)
  [1950] Copyright of Training Notes and Web Site - (2008-12-18)
  [2010] How long should a training module be? - (2009-01-27)
  [2192] Copy writing - allowing for the cut - (2009-05-21)
  [2481] Sample code with errors in it on our web site - (2009-10-29)
  [2812] What is Perl? - (2010-06-15)
  [2828] Sharing our programs - easy. Sharing our data - harder. - (2010-06-26)
  [3152] Jargon busting - (2011-01-30)
  [4009] Clear, concise examples - Ruby classes and objects. - (2013-02-17)
  [4031] Showing what programming errors look like - web site pitfall - (2013-03-06)


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