After looking around and seriously considering languages such as Delphi and after asking questions here, CV, and many other places I've come to the conclusion that "Java" might be the best programming choice for beginners out there (Hell last year our school dropped VB in favor of Java).
So I had Java on my machine previously on my machine (I had downloaded some 12 meg file from Sun's website) and then I did more searching and it seems that "Eclipse" is the best thing to use to create Java Programs. Also based on the reccomendation of another friend I download JCreator.
So now I go to gamedeveloper (the site in that other thread) a few days ago and they have like 5 different versions of Java.
I thought Java had one version? What did I download that was ~65 megabytes large? I am confused Any help?
Basically I'm looking for what version of Java I would be coding in (I want to create stand alone programs) and tutorials for teh n00b because it seems there is a wealth of info out there but a lot of it address Javascript and specific uses of it...like code snippets. I'm just loooking for "Hello World!" type programs as I make trivial programs that do nothing but amuse myself
So I had Java on my machine previously on my machine (I had downloaded some 12 meg file from Sun's website) and then I did more searching and it seems that "Eclipse" is the best thing to use to create Java Programs. Also based on the reccomendation of another friend I download JCreator.
So now I go to gamedeveloper (the site in that other thread) a few days ago and they have like 5 different versions of Java.
I thought Java had one version? What did I download that was ~65 megabytes large? I am confused Any help?
Basically I'm looking for what version of Java I would be coding in (I want to create stand alone programs) and tutorials for teh n00b because it seems there is a wealth of info out there but a lot of it address Javascript and specific uses of it...like code snippets. I'm just loooking for "Hello World!" type programs as I make trivial programs that do nothing but amuse myself