Working with files (reading/writing) in Java could be useful to help you store data persistently even after your program has been shut down. If you don’t have a way of persistently/permanently storing your programs data when the program shuts down, it will all reset and you have to start all over the next time you… Read More »
In this article we will cover basic 2D drawing in Java using the Graphics class, Image class, Font class and Color class. We won’t go in-depth into every possible way to draw in Java because that would be quite a lot, but we will cover the basics and provide further information and details so that… Read More »
Introduction to the Date class in Java When building programs in any programming language, there might come a time when it would be useful to be able to log a date and a time for a certain event, action or other. In Java we can use the Date class to create a Date instance object,… Read More »
Introduction to the Java Scanner class In Java you can interact with your users in various different ways, one of which is using the Scanner class that can be found in Java. The Scanner class allows you to create a Scanner object which you then can use to collect user input to use in your… Read More »
Before we start to cover the basic syntax of programming with Java, I just want to mention a couple of things that can be good to keep in mind when you embark on your programming journey with Java :) Semi-colons in Java and their function In Java you need to place a semi-colon after each… Read More »
Java is a good programming language for beginners Java is fairly easy for beginners to get started with. And we believe this is in part due to it’s fairly straight forward, clear-cut and easy syntax, good documentation and clear error presentation. And since it’s one of the oldest high-level programming languages we have, there are… Read More »
This article will cover how to download, install and configure one of the most popular IDE’s for Java – namely the Eclipse IDE. To start developing programs with Java, you first have to download something called the Java Development Kit (also known as JDK). And we will go through the steps of: Downloading Installing Configuring JDK… Read More »
What is programming? Here we refer to Computer programming as Programming, and it’s a way for us to write commands and code that the computer can understand and execute for us. More and more of our everyday lives owes a huge part to programming. The phones we use, ATM machines, how computers work, tablets, washing… Read More »