Java is a free programming language and computing platform released by Sun Microsystems and designed by James Gosling in 1995.
It is used to build websites, games, artificial intelligence, and more.
It also has many frameworks, including Spring Boot which makes development from scratch significantly easier.
Java is a good choice for beginners because it is relatively easy to learn compared to similar languages, such as C and C++, and is extremely popular. A search for Java on job sites such as Indeed or LinkedIn yields thousands of results. Java can also be run on Windows, Linux, and iOS.
In the next section we will download the required software needed to run Java on our machine.
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