My Love for JAVA and a few Reasons for you to Love it !!!!

There’s a long list of programming languages that continue to exist with their strengths and flaws, making our lives easier. Over the course of past 20 years, Java has proved that it’s one of the best programming languages around. However, I strongly don’t believe in any type of competition between different programming languages.

During its journey, this free and open source programming language has achieved numerous milestones and proved its worth. With time, Java has evolved and established its place as an essential ingredient for making successful software and applications. The recent indexes of programming languages’ popularity have once again reinforced that Java is one of the most popular languages around.This brings us to the reasons that make Java a top contender in the race of programming languages that a programmer should consider learning.

Why one should learn Java programming language and become a programmer? The answer to this question comprises of multiple reasons like its popularity, ease-to-learn nature, helpful open source tools and libraries etc. Gaining expertise in Java ensures a secure career with fat paychecks and the power to create applications with real-world applications.

So here comes the Reasons !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tons of resources to learn Java.

Being a mature programming language, there are numerous resources available online that can act as your perfect companion in the learning process. Depending upon your need, you can look for free and paid learning resource to aid yourself. In short, almost any imaginable doubt related to Java has already been asked and answered on the online forums.

Java is easy to learn

Let’s accept this fact — most of us pick Java as our first programming language as it’s easy-to-learn. With an English-like syntax, Java could be learnt in a short span of time and used to build useful applications all along if we are having revolutionary ideas in our minds.

It’s an Object Oriented Programming Language

Being an Object Oriented Programming language, the concepts of Java are relatable and much easier. This property makes Java a flexible, system modular, and extensible programming language. Java strongly suggests the best practices of OOPS design and promotes its correct usage.

Lots of job opportunities 

Programmers with a sound knowledge of Java are in great demand. With a large installed base, this widely used programming language continues to create jobs in the tech industry. Additionally, the popularity of Android apps has brought along countless opportunities for an Android developers who write native apps in Java.If you are still skeptical about Java and its worth, let me tell you that Java is used in websites like Amazon.com, Facebook.com. LinkedIn.com, and eBay.com. It also finds use in enterprise application development, IoT, cloud development etc. Aiding to this popularity, Java has a strong development roadmap with a continuous improvement to security and performance.

 Universal usage & Great community support

Java programming language is omnipresent. Due to its stability and scalability, you can find Java on mobiles, desktops, large scale applications etc. The same can also be said about Java programmers who easily outnumber other professionals. Java is also gaining big in the field of Internet of Things (IoT). With about 10 million Java developers spread across the world, Java community continues to grow. Just like other open source technologies, Java promotes the philosophy of giving back to the society. On multiple online forums like Stackoverflow, expert Java programmers are always ready to help the newcomers.

Java’s Rich API & Powerful development tools

Java programming language’s Rich API can be listed among the main reasons behind its success. Couple it with a wide set of tools supported by Java’s open source ecosystem and you’ve got just about everything you’ll need while working with Java.The powerful IDEs available for Java have played a key role in taking Java to the top level. Eclipse and Netbeans have made coding in Java a pleasant experience. Apart from helping you in the code writing process, they also offer a high-level of debugging assistance to the programmers.

AND FINALLY THE CONCLUSION !!

Java is just ever-ending and open source. We just need to keep ourselves updated !!  We love free and open source software, don’t we? OpenJDLK is a free and open source implementation of Java programming language. Being an open source programming language, it’s platform independent across OS environments. Also, you don’t need to pay a penny to write applications on Java.

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This is written from an inspired source just for the acknowledgement of the readers and I am not responsible for any Legalities

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