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Hey interweb users! So its time for my weekly update for the world. I obtained a book from a good friend of mine, Java for the Beginning Programmer, and have begun to read that and have started to understand the actually syntax behind programming. Not quite sure how everything works together yet but that comes in the later chapters. The book basically teaches you how to program, taking into the fact that the person reading this book is completely new to the technological field. It begins by describing the 3 types of Java programs you can create: a console application, a GUI application and an applet. If you have read my other posts, you may have correctly assumed that I am going to be creating a GUI application or a Graphical User Interface application for my project. There are a few remarkable differences between each types of program. Console applications are good for programs that need to run in the background, meaning they don't need user input to continuously function. GUI applications differ from that in which that those kinds of programs need input in order to function. An example would be a virtual calculator. Finally, there are applets. Applets are used to display information on a page in the internet. Applets can display a large range of file type, from .mp3 to .jpeg. The nifty thing about Java is that it is a cross platform program, meaning that a Java applicant can run on many different types of operating systems, such as Windows, Snow Leopard (Mac), Linux, Ubuntu etc.
Well that was Chapter 1. Next post, Chapter 2!