Haha! at the beginning I was about to write tutorial about inheritance and polymorphism, but I guess it's going to be too long and boring. So, instead I'm just going to create the tutorial for Java newbie (including me )

JAVA JDK 1.6

Can be downloaded at: https://sdlc5a.sun.com/ECom/EComActi...0 B1077E6CDE3

Before we're going further. Once the installation finished, go to command line, and type java and see if there's anything comes up. It's a good thing if there's something that comes up. If there's nothing happen, there are various reasons.

Once you're done installing, probably the best way is to setup your path, so that you can compile java easily

HOW TO SETUP JAVA PATH

1. Go to your control panel (I'm sure that you know how to go there)
2. Right click on System, then choose Properties
3. Find Advanced Tab (I'm now using Vista, but I remembered that there's advanced tab on Windows XP)
4. Environment Variables...
5. On the System Variables section, select CLASSPATH, and then click EDIT. Add a "." (period, without " ") before whatever is there, or after whatever is there. Make sure you seperate them with ";" (colon, without " ")
6. also on System Variables section, select Path, and then click EDIT. Add "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0\bin;" or "C:\Program Files\Java\jdk<version>\bin;" (you substitute <version> with your JDK version, and of course without " ", and ";" is to seperate whatever is there with the new one that you just added.
7. Click Ok to everything to close them.

Now, let's find out whether your setup is working

1. Open notepad
2. Write below codes:

3. Save the file As .. ProgrammersTalk.java to wherever folder you want
4. Go to command line, then go to folder that you want

5. Once you're in the folder where the ProgrammersTalk.java is at go type:

6. It's suppose to compile if you wrote the code correctly. And then once it's done compiling, type DIR to see what's inside your directory. and there suppose to be .class file in there as the result of the compiled .java file.
7. Type java ProgrammersTalk

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