Java for Absolute Beginners: Learn to Program the Fundamentals the Java 9+ Way

© Iuliana Cosmina 2018

Iuliana CosminaJava for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3778-6_2

2. Preparing Your Development Environment

Iuliana Cosmina¹ 

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Edinburgh, UK

 

To start learning Java, you need a few things installed on your computer. The following are the requirements:

• Java support on your computer (kinda’ mandatory).

• An integrated development environment, also known as IDE, which is basically an application in which you write your code and that you use to compile and execute it.

  • The recommended IDE for this book is IntelliJ IDEA. You can go to their website to get the free community edition; for the purposes of the book, it will do.

  • Or, you can choose the most popular free IDE for Java development: Eclipse.

  • Or, you can try ...