Java

In this course we will use the Java programming language.

Java is a modern, high level, object oriented programming language, which supports also the imperative and the functional programming paradigms.

General characteristics of Java:

• simple
• platform independent (the same program can be run on Windows, Unix, MacOS, etc.)
• comes equipped with a very rich set of well developed libraries
• designed for the use on Internet
• based on virtual machine (see later)
• safe (the virtual machine forbids undesired accesses to applications running via the Internet)