7 Reason To Learn Java
History Of Java
James
Gosling initiated Java language project in June 1991 for use in one of his many
set-top box projects. The language, initially called ‘Oak’ after an oak tree
that stood outside Gosling's office, also went by the name ‘Green’ and ended up
later being renamed as Java, from a list of random words.
Sun released the first public implementation as Java 1.0 in 1995.
It promised to Write Once, Run Anywhere (WORA), providing no-cost run-times on
popular platforms.
On 13 November 2006, Sun released much of Java as free and open
source software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Now lets get to our Topic i.e "seven reasons to learn Java"
These are the reasons to learn Java because Java is the best programming language in terms of opportunities, development, and community support
1. Java is Easy to learn
One of the top reasons for learning Java or considering it as the best programming language because Java is quite easy to learn and can be understood in a short span of time as it has a syntax similar to English. Java is used by some 9 million developers and it runs on around 7 billion devices worldwide according to Oracle blogs. Because of the high demand for Java, Java developers hold some of the most high-paying jobs in the industry. The average salary of a Java Developer lies between $47,169 to $106,610 per year. Once a programmer is familiar with initial hurdles with installing JDK and setting up PATH and understand How Classpath Works, it's pretty easy to write a program in Java.
2. Java is an Object-Oriented Programming Language
Another reason, which made Java popular is that it's an Object Oriented Programming language. Developing an OOP application is much easier, and it also helps to keep system modular, flexible, and extensible.
Once you have knowledge of crucial OOP concepts like Abstraction, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, and Inheritance, you can use all those with Java. Java itself embodies many best practices and design patterns in its library.
Java is one of the few close to 100% OOP programming languages. Java also promotes the use of SOLID And Object Oriented design Principles in the form of open source projects like Spring, which make sure your object dependency is managed well by using the Dependency Injection Principle.
3. Java has an abundant API
Java has an abundant Application Programming Interface (API) that includes many Java classes, packages, interfaces, etc. This is useful for constructing applications without necessarily knowing their inside implementations.
Java has mainly three types of API i.e. Official Java core API’s, Optional official Java API’s and Unofficial API’s. These API’s overall are used for almost everything including networking, I/O, databases, media, XML parsing, speech synthesis, etc.
4. Great collection of Open Source libraries
Open-source libraries ensure that Java should be used everywhere. Apache, Google, and other organization have contributed a lot of great libraries, which makes Java development easy, faster, and cost-effective.
There are frameworks like Spring, Struts, Maven, which ensures that Java development follows best practices of software craftmanship, promotes the use of design patterns, and assisted Java developers in getting there job done.
I always recommend searching for functionality in Google before writing your own code. There is a good chance that it's already coded, tested, and available for ready to use.
5. Java has Powerful development tools
There are many Integrated development environments (IDE’s) in Java that provides various facilities for software development to programmers. Powerful Java IDE’s such as Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA, etc. play a big role in the success of Java.
These IDE’s provide many facilities such as debugging, syntax highlighting, code completion, language support, automated refactoring, etc. that make coding in Java easier and faster.
Java has created a base for the Android operating system and opted around 90% fortune 500 companies for develop a lot of back-end applications. Also, it plays a great role in Apache Hadoop data processing, Amazon Web Services, and Windows Azure, etc.
6. Java is Versatile
Yes, Java is everywhere, it's on the desktop, it's on mobile, it's on the card, almost everywhere and so is Java programmers. I think Java programmers outnumber any other programming language professional.
Though I don't have any data to back this up, it's based on experience. This vast availability of Java Programmers is another reason why organizations prefer to choose Java for new development than any other programming language.
Having said that, programming is a massive field, and if you look at C and UNIX, which is still surviving and even stronger enough to live another 20 years, Java also falls in the same league.
Though there are a lot of talks about functional programming, Scala, and other JVM languages like Kotlin and Groovy, they need to go a long way to match the community, resources, and popularity of Java.
Also, OOP is one of the best programming paradigms, and as long as it will be there, Java will remain solid.
On 8 May 2007, Sun finished the process, making all of Java's core
code free and open source, aside from a small portion of code to which Sun did
not hold the copyright.
7. Java is Platform Independent
Java is platform independent as the Java source code is converted to byte code by the compiler which can then be executed on any platform using the Java Virtual Machine. Java is also known as a WORA (write once, run anywhere) language because it is platform independent.
Also, the development of most Java applications occurs in a Windows environment while they are run on a UNIX platform because of the platform independent nature of Java.
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