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Meet the Mentors Alex Liam Allen
What is programming about? Computers are dumb (but fast)
Programmers are smart (but slow) Combine the two and you get…
Everything
How do we make computers do things?
Programming
What is programming?
Instructions that tell the computer what to do!
Can you name a programming language?
(put in java symbol) JAVA
James Gosling (Father of Java)
23 May 1995
Why Java?
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What is Java used to program?
What does Java code look like?
What are we going to program?
Retro Games
Beginner Advanced
Jersey Coders New Term Introduction

Jersey Coders New Term Introduction

Editor's Notes

  • #15 James Gosling slings a pie in the face of a Bill Gates impersonator at the beginning of his keynote address at the Worldwide JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco, March 24, 1998.
  • #18 Number one programming langauge in the world - http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
  • #19 9 million developers - https://www.java.com/en/about/
  • #20 3 Billion Mobile Phones Run Java
  • #21 5 Billion Java Cards in Use
  • #24 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, Web cams, games, car navigation systems, lottery terminals, medical devices, parking payment stations, and more.