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Foil 3 What is Java in a NutShell?

From Java Tutorial - Summer 1997 Part 1:Introduction to Java Language CEWES Tutorial, Classes SU/Jackson State -- July 22-25 and Fall 97. by Nancy J. McCracken,Geoffrey C. Fox
1 What is Java?
  • A simple, object oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, safe, architechture neutral, portable, high performance, multithreaded, dynamic language.
2 Java is interesting because
  • It is both a general purpose object-oriented language along the lines of C++
  • and it is particularly designed to interface with Web pages and to enable distributed applications over the internet.
3 The Web is becoming the dominant software development arena; this will drive Java as the best supported, most widely taught language
  • Particularly good as a language for K-12 teaching
  • Even outside the web, e.g. in scientific computing, Java is as good and in some (modest) respects better than all other languages
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© on Sun Oct 12 1997