Dept.
of Electrical &
Computer Engineering (ECE)
CSE 215 : Programming Language II
Lec 2: Introduction to JAVA
Dr Ziaul Hossain
History
• Java was originally developed by Sun
Microsystems starting in 1991
– James Gosling
– Patrick Naughton
– Chris Warth
– Ed Frank
– Mike Sheridan
• This language was initially called Oak
• Renamed Java in 1995 after the coffee from
Indonesia
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JAVA …
• A simple, object-oriented, distributed,
interpreted, robust, secure, architecture neutral,
portable, high-performance, multithreaded, and
dynamic language -- Sun Microsystems
• Object-Oriented
– No free functions
– All code belong to some class
– Classes arranged in a hierarchy or package structure
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JAVA …
• Distributed
– Fully supports IPv4, with structures to support
IPv6
– Includes support for Applets: small programs
embedded in HTML documents
• Interpreted
– The program are compiled into Java Virtual
Machine (JVM) code called bytecode
– Each bytecode instruction is translated into
machine code at the time of execution
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JAVA . . .
• Robust
– Java is simple : no pointers/stack concerns
– Exception handling
• try/catch/finally series allows for simplified error recovery
– Strongly typed language
• many errors caught during compilation
• Architecture Neutral
– Runs in both Windows and Linux based machines
– Runs in all configurations
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Java: Platform Neutral
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First Program
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Second Program
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If Example
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For Example
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Primitive Data Types
• int
• float
• double
• char
• boolean
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Integers
byte b, c; short s;
short t;
int a;
int totalNum; long lightspeed;
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Floating Point Types
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Character Type
char letter;
16 bit sized
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Example in Character
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Boolean Example
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Variable Declaration
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Scope & Lifetime of a Variable
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Scope & Lifetime of a variable
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• End of Lecture 2
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