Hello,
I'm supposed to take some java courses soon, but I want to get a head start so that I'm comfortable w/Java @ the command line [see why below, I did the same thing for my c++ course].
To give myself this head start I'm reading some basics:
http://java.sun.com/developer/online...pile.html#comp
so I ran the following (according to those ^ instructions)
Code:
$ javac ./sample.java
The program 'javac' can be found in the following packages:
* openjdk-6-jdk <-- would this one be the open source choice?
* ecj
* gcj-4.4-jdk
* gcj-4.3
* jikes-classpath
* jikes-kaffe
* kaffe
* sun-java6-jdk
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
javac: command not found
?? $ sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk ??
If the above choice is completely preference based, then the only preference I can think of having (and its *just* a preference) is using open sourced stuff.
Given my "preference",
- what would everyone suggest I use?
- what do you use?
- Any warnings about what I'm about to pick out?
- maybe someone can just point me to a list summary of how these differ?
thanks in advance !
(
Why I'm not just waiting for class to start:
I'm trying to make sure I go into this course with a comfortable/familiar work flow for writing,compiling,running at the command line.
I know the professor will insist that everybody use graphical IDE's for the course. I understand such a demand from the professor, because this makes it easier for him to teach code instead of work-flow. They do the same thing in C++ courses here.
Lucky for me:
if I'm comfortable enough that I never have to ask for there help regarding my development work-flow, then the teacher will never complain if he finds me programming - say in vim via ssh on some remote machine - as long as I only ask him questions about the language itself
)
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