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Foil 3 What is Java in a NutShell?

From Introduction to Java Language and Applets CPS406/606 Fall Semester 1999 -- September 2 99. by Nancy J. McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox
What is Java and What is Good For? for Foil 3
What is Java?
  • A simple, object oriented, distributed, interpreted, robust, safe, architecture neutral, portable, high performance, multithreaded, dynamic language.
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.
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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