The Language of Java
What is Java? Java, in it’s simplest definition, is a dynamic computer application that can run a program to accomplish a task. Java runs in all sorts of things in the average person’s life; things such as car stereo systems, televisions, cell phone applications, websites, and more. But, where did it come from, and how does it work, and how has it impacted our lives today?
Java was first created by Patrick Naughton, Mike Sheridan, and James Gosling in 1994. However, they started writing the code for it four years earlier in 1990. They originally started making it to try and make a new and more practical way of computing. Originally, Java was called “Oak”, and it was being made for the Green Project in Sun Microsystems (about.com). Using Oak, they wrote a browser called WebRunner, and later renamed it HotJava. This browser was the first browser that was dynamic, capable of having moving objects on the page, and having executable content within the page (oracle.com). With the internet era beginning to take hold, having over sixteen million internet users, people begin to notice Java through the web by next year.
The following year, Java becomes so big that a conference called JavaOne takes place. This conference had over six thousand people come to learn this new, object-oriented language that was changing the web and computing in general. There were also over 160 companies and small businesses that attended, all showing off their Java-related products. Just one year later, over 400,000 developers are working in Java, making it the second largest computer language in the world (oracle.com). Over 10,000 developers attended the JavaOne conference that year.
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Dr. Grace Murray Hopper was known as a phenomenal computer scientist, mathematician and rear admiral in the United States Navy. She was a strong force in developing programming languages in technology. She is responsible for contributing work to the Harvard Mark I and the Univac I computer and many other components of technology in the 1940’s and 50’s era. Hopper’s skills allowed her to create the compiler for programming languages. Her ideals lead to the creation of COBOL known as common business oriented language. Hopper’s excellent skills help build what is today’s source of technology all around the world. Today, Grace Hopper’s help with programming languages is what helps us to easily use computers. Many of us don’t know the work it takes into building a computer that efficiently works the minute we command it to. The hardest part about a computer is making a computer understand you and you being able to understand it back. Her contributions allow us to play our video games, send emails, and even shop all at our computer.
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Three weeks after Johnny’s PC tragedy occurred, another small crisis took place in Johnny Jellybean’s life. In his computer class, his teacher, Mr. Barber, had given him an impossible assignment. The assignment really wasn’t that difficult. All he had to do was write about the future of the internet. Unfortunately, the internet was like a different language to Johnny. In his despair he called his only tech savvy friend, Chris Cobalt.
Today, the world is changing fast in many ways, and the most rapid change that is seen within our society is technology. It is imperative that businesses stay on top of what is new and how they can better their company’s outlook by presenting their information in the fastest and most reliable ways. With the two major computer programming languages of today, C++ and Java, which is better for businesses to be able to acquire such speed and consistency?
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