 You’ll learn to write instructions commanding

computers to perform tasks.

 Software (i.e., the instructions you write) controls

hardware (i.e., computers).

 Java is one of today’s most popular languages for

developing software.
 Over the years, many programmers learned structured
programming.
 You’ll learn structured programming and object-

oriented programming—the key programming

methodology used by programmers today.
 You’ll create and work with many software objects.

 Their internal structure is often built using structured-

programming techniques.
 The logic of manipulating objects is occasionally
expressed with structured programming.
 Java has become the language of choice for
implementing Internet-based applications and software
for devices that communicate over a network.
 There are now billions of Java-enabled mobile phones

and handheld devices.

 Java is the preferred language for meeting many

organizations’ enterprisewide programming needs.

 Programmers write instructions in various
programming languages, some directly understandable
by computers and others requiring intermediate
translation steps.
 Three general language types:

 Machine languages
 Assembly languages
 High-level languages
 Any computer can directly understand only its own
machine language.
 This is the computer’s “natural language,” defined by its hard-
ware de-sign.
 Generally consist of strings of numbers (ultimately reduced to
1s and 0s) that instruct computers to perform their most
elementary operations one at a time.
 Machine dependent—a particular machine language can be
used on only one type of computer.
 Englishlike abbreviations that represent elementary
operations formed the basis of assembly languages.
 Translator programs called assemblers convert

assembly-language programs to machine language.

 High-level languages
 Single statements accomplish substantial tasks.
 Compilers convert high-level language programs into machine
language.
 Allow you to write instructions that look almost like everyday
English and contain commonly used mathematical notations.
 C, C++, Microsoft’s .NET languages (e.g., Visual
Basic, Visual C++ and C#) are among the most widely
used high-level programming languages; Java is by far
the most widely used.
 Compiling a high-level language program into machine
language can take a considerable amount of computer
time.
 Interpreter programs execute high-level language

programs directly, although slower than compiled

programs run.
 Java uses a clever mixture of compilation and

interpretation to run programs.

 Java evolved from C++, which evolved from C, which
evolved from B.
 C

 Originally implemented in 1972

 Evolved from B by Dennis Ritchie at Bell Laboratories
 Became widely known as the UNIX operating system’s
development language
 Today, most of the code for general-purpose operating systems
is written in C or C++.
 C++
 An extension of C
 Provides capabilities for object-oriented programming.
 Hybrid language—it’s possible to program in either a C-like
style, an object-oriented style or both.
 Microprocessors are having a profound impact in intelligent
consumer-electronic devices.
 1991
 Recognizing this, Sun Microsystems funded an internal corporate
research project, which resulted in a C++-based language named
Java
 Created by James Gosling.
 1993
 The web exploded in popularity
 Sun saw the potential of using Java to add dynamic content to web
pages.
 Java bring in the attention of the business community
because of the extraordinary interest in the web.
 Java programs consist of pieces called classes.
 Classes include methods that perform tasks and return
information when the tasks complete.
 Java class libraries
 Rich collections of existing classes
 Also known as the Java APIs (Application Programming Interfaces)
 Two aspects to learning the Java “world.”
 The Java language it-self
 The classes in the extensive Java class libraries
 Download the Java API documentation and IDE
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tml
 Programming tips
 Software Engineering Observations—explain concepts that
affect and improve the overall architecture and quality of
software systems.
 Good Programming Practices—help you write programs that
are clearer, more understandable, more maintainable and easier
to test and debug—i.e., remove programming errors.
 Common Programming Errors—discuss problems to watch out
for and avoid.
 Programming tips (cont.):
 Performance Tips—techniques for writing programs that run
faster and use less memory
 Portability Tips—techniques to help you write programs that
can run, with little or no modification, on a variety of
computers
 Error-Prevention Tips—techniques for removing bugs from
your programs
 Look-and-Feel Observations—techniques to help you design
the “look” and “feel” of your applications’ user interfaces
 Java programs normally go through five phases
 edit
 compile
 load
 verify
 execute
 Phase 1 consists of editing a file with an editor program
(normally known simply as an editor).
 Type a Java program (source code) using the editor
 Make any necessary corrections
 Save the program
 A file name ending with the .java extension indicates that the
file contains Java source code.
 Integrated development environments (IDEs)
 Provide tools that support the software-development process,
including editors for writing and editing programs and
debuggers for locating logic errors—errors that cause
programs to execute incorrectly.
 Popular IDEs
 NetBeans (www.netbeans.org)
 JDK is required for netbeans, Download
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nloads/index.html
 JBuilder
 Eclipse (www.eclipse.org)
 Phase 2
 If the program compiles, the compiler produces a .class file
called Welcome.class that contains the compiled version
of the program.
 Java compiler translates Java source code into bytecodes
that represent the tasks to execute.
 Bytecodes are executed by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
—a part of the JDK and the foundation of the Java platform.
 Bytecodes are platform independent
 They do not depend on a particular hardware platform.
 Bytecodes are portable
 The same bytecodes can execute on any platform containing a
JVM that understands the version of Java in which the
bytecodes were compiled.
 Phase 3
 The JVM places the program in memory to execute it
 This is known as loading.
 Class loader takes the .class files containing the program’s
bytecodes and transfers them to primary memory.
 Also loads any of the .class files provided by Java that your
program uses.
 The .class files can be loaded from a disk on your system or
over a network.
 Phase 4
 As the classes are loaded, the bytecode verifier examines their
bytecodes
 Ensures that they are valid and do not violate Java’s security
restrictions.
 Java enforces strong security to make sure that Java programs
arriving over the network do not damage your files or your
system (as computer viruses and worms might).
 Phase 5
 The JVM executes the program’s bytecodes.
 JVM typically uses a combination of interpretation and just-in-time
(JIT) compilation.
 Analyzes the bytecodes as they are interpreted, searching for hot
spots—parts of the bytecodes that execute frequently.
 A just-in-time (JIT) compiler translates the bytecodes into the
underlying computer’s machine language.
 When the JVM encounters these compiled parts again, the faster
machine-language code executes.
 Java programs actually go through two compilation phases
 One in which source code is translated into bytecodes (for portability
across computer platforms)
 A second in which, during execution, the bytecodes are translated into
machine language for the actual computer on which the program executes.