Java: An Introduction to a Notorious Object-Oriented Language
tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) – Java is infamously difficult according to many programmers, but it’s good to know. The next post delves into terminology and concepts.
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Java is notorious as being one of the most difficult to learn for beginner programmers, but don’t worry! This just means when you grasp it, the other object-oriented languages such as C# (Microsoft’s take on Java) or C++ will be a snap to pick up. It’s like learning Latin before you learn Spanish or French! Now, in no way am I saying Java was the first language, because it was probably (I may be wrong here) Assembly or some low-level language and you’ll worry about that if you have to take “Fundamentals of Computer Systems” or require binary/assembly code in whatever it is you’re doing such as x86; however, we’re not learning a low-level language, we’re learning a “high-level language.”
The reason Java is considered a high-level language is because of the way it interacts with the system. Not only does it have its own compiler (think of it as a big translator that pre-builds programs for now) and “garbage collector” (which automates memory management) but it also has a virtual environment in which it is run, making it universally available among the operating systems. These are all reasons it’s favorable to have some idea how to code in Java, even if you’ll be writing mostly Javascript or C#, etc.
In the next posts we’ll discuss what a class is, what a method and its different types are, what a variable and its different types/scopes are, and how they all fit together to create an instantiated entity or “object.”
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