What is Java ?

Java is a programming language and a computing platform.

What do you mean by a Computing Platform ? 

This question might have popped up in your mind while going through the first line, in simple words, it is any hardware or software used to host a particular application or any technology using which other technologies are built.  

 Say if you want to go about in more detail it was developed by Sun Microsystems in 1995.

There are like a whole bunch of websites that will not work until and unless you have java installed in your system.

Java is considered to be fast, secure and a reliable programming language.

In the next article, we will be learning how to install and set-up java in your system and get going with the fun part. Cheers !