Get your hands on your keyboard and type Oracle Java installation in google search bar or follow the steps here below.
- Go to “https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/downloads”
- Chose your machine’s version of installer and download. It is a good practice to choose an installation directory rather than your program Files in Windows so windows security feautures would not block your java processes.
- Once you finish installation define a system environmnet variables from system properties on Windows machines. Add a user variable as JAVA_HOME and continue defining installation directory. As in the example here :
you can check your Java installation file path from your commandline. Type “java -version” to check if your java installation is integrated with the system, if not you may again need a restart of your machine. If all is well type “echo %JAVA_HOME%” to see your java installation path which needs to be entered as variable value above in the window for your JAVA_HOME variable name entry. If above echo code does not work try these : “where java” in windows or “which java” for unix based systems like MacOs or Linux. Another method you can use in CMD in Windows is “for %i in (javac.exe) do @echo. %~$PATH:i” - Then edit Path in your System variables and add a new environment variable entry. This is simply your Java bin folder you can find it in the installation path. A sample entry would as below.
All done for basic Java JDK set up. Now we need to install a Java IDE to write our java codes and run them. To continue learning how to install your IDE follow the link here.
Some more explanations for newbees :
- JDK is an abreviation for Java Development Kit.
- IDE is an abreviation for Integrated development Environment.
- To Learn More about Java installation and Java Programming Language here some useful links :
- https://www.edureka.co/blog/java-tutorial/
