Java

• 1991: developed by James Gosling and Patrick Naughton at Sun Microsystems as "Green" for use in consumer devices.
• 1995: released by Sun as Java. Java was ideal for the internet because it is both safe and portable.
• 2006: the current version, version 6, is released. The other versions were 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 5.
• Wikipedia article

Programming Process

• Figure 13: From Source Code to Running Program
• Figure 14: The Edit-Compile-Test Loop

Types of Errors

• Syntax or compiler
• Logic or run-time

Simple Program

• The program that we developed during lecture: Message.java.