Java

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Robert Cook Wrote: 
> I'm trying to get started programming java, I applied and installed the

> basic java package and the SDK (along with any other packages it said
> were

> necesary when I chose those). What do I have to do now to open up the
> actual

> program to start programming

> Thanks,

> Robert

> P.S. I'm still new with Ubuntu as well so please keep that in mind,
> and any

> help is apreciated, thanks.

> 

You need to write java source code with an editor like gedit. Save
"Yourfile.java". Compile with "javac Yourfile.java". Run with "java
Yourfile".



You could install and use an IDE too. I like eclipse and jedit(with
plugins).



Grab a small java book too, like Bruce Eckels free "Thinking In Java".


-- 
diebels