Why you should learn Java Programming Language?

    Why bother to learn Java at all? Isn't it just for people who are really smart and know a lot about computers?

            No, not really. Anyone can learn Java. It can be picked up easily, and is for both beginners and experts alike.

         

        Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day.

        Java is fast, secure, and reliable.From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to  scientific supercomputers,cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!

• 1.1 billion desktops run Java
• 930 million Java Runtime Environment downloads each year
• 3 billion mobile phones run Java
• 31 times more Java phones ship every year than Apple and Android combined
• 100% of all Blu-ray players run Java
• 1.4 billion Java Cards are manufactured each year
• Java powers set-top boxes, printers, games, car navigation systems, ATMs, lottery terminals, medical devices, parking payment stations, and more.

7 Major Reasons To Learn Java:

1)Easy to learn-

  
            Don't we all like to do things which are easy ? The Java programming language is easy to learn, whether you're totally new at programming, or just want to pick up a new language. It is the perfect computer language for being competitive in today's industries or even to create programs as a hobby.

2)Free-

            People like FREE things, Don't you? So if a programmer want to learn a programming language, or a organization wants to use a technology, COST is an important factor. Since Java is free from start, i.e. you don't need to pay anything to create Java application.There are no license fees to be paid, no nasty multi-thousand-dollar development environments to buy.This free thing also helped Java to become popular among individual programmers, and among large organizations. Availability of Java programmers is another big think, which makes organization to choose Java for there strategic development.

3)Wonderful community support-
            Community is the biggest strength of Java programming language and platform. No matter, How good a language is, it wouldn't survive, if there is no community to support, help and share there knowledge.Lots of programmers, who use open source, contribute as tester etc.Expert Programmer provides advice FREE at various Java forums and stackoverflow (active forum). This is simply amazing and gives lot of confidence to a newbie in Java.

4)IDEs take the pain away -e.g. Eclipse , Netbeans ,JCreator-

                 Believe it or not, Eclipse,Netbeans and JCreator has played huge role to make Java one of the best programming language. Coding in IDE is pleasure, especially if you have coded in DOS Editor or Notepad. They not only helps in code completion but also provides powerful debugging capability, which is essential for real world development. Integrated Development Environment (IDE) made Java development much easier, faster and fluent. It's easy to search, refactor and read code using IDEs.

5)Android-

                Android applications are developed using the Java language. Who can resist the little green robot? Google made a sensible choice when they chose the Java language to power what’s becoming the world’s dominant mobile phone platform.

6)Great collection of Open Source libraries-

          Open source libraries ensures that Java should be used everywhere. Apache, Google, and other organization has contributed lot of great libraries, which makes Java development easy, faster and cost effective.I always recommend to search for a functionality in Google, before writing your own code. There is good chance that, it's already coded, tested and available for ready to use.

7)Awesome Documentation support ->Javadocs-

          When I first saw Javadoc, I was amazed. It's great piece of documentation, which tells lot of things about Java API. I think without Javadoc documentation, Java wouldn't be as popular, and it's one of the main reason, Why I think Java is best programming language. Not every one has time and intention to look at code to learn what a method do or how to use a class. Javadoc made learning easy, and provide an excellent reference while coding in Java. With advent of IDE, you don't even need to look Javadoc explicitly in browser, but you can get all information in your IDE window itself.

      There are many more reasons to study and love java.You will come to know that reasons while going through our blog.

The Biggest Reason to study JAVA-

                                                    -WRITE ONCE,RUN ANYWHERE