Reasons to Learn Java Programming

Java is one of the best programming languages built. In the last 20 years, Java has proven it.
This article will give you Reasons to Learn Java Programming, Two decades is a great
time for any programming language and Java has gained strength on every passing day.
Although Java development slows down many times, Java has responded well. Prior to Java 5
performance improvements with Java 6, and Google's choice of choice for Android app
development, Java, as a front-line programming language, with tremendous changes in Enam,
Generics, and Autoboxing in Java 5.

Many computer science graduates often have a question, which is the best programming

language to start with? which language should I learn to begin with? shall I learn Java? etc.

Well, it varies to the definition of your best programming language, if it's famous then obviously
Java outscores everyone, even C, which is there for almost 50 years.

If it is in terms of job opportunities, then Java outsources to everyone again. You can get the
opportunity for tons of jobs by learning the Java programming language, you can develop core
Java-based server-side applications, J2EE Web and Enterprise applications, and even for
Android-based mobile application development. Can go.

1) Java is Easy to learn

Many people would be surprised to see this seems to be one of the top reason for learning
Java or considering it as the great programming language, but it is. If you have a steep
learning curve, it would be not easy to get productive in a short span of time, which is the
case with many of the professional project.

Java has combined with English like syntax with minimum magic characters e.g. Generics

angle brackets so that it is easy to read Java program and learn quickly.

When a programmer is familiar with initial hurdles with installing JDK and setting up PATH
and understand How Classpath works, it's pretty easy to write a program in Java.

3) Java has Rich API

Another reason for Java programming language's great success is it's Rich API and most
importantly it's highly visible because come with Java installation.

As a newcomer started Java programming, I used to code Applets and those days Applets

provides great animation capability, which amazes new programmer like us, who are used to
code in Turbo C++ editor.

The Java programming offers API for I/O, networking, utilities, XML parsing, database

connection, and everything. Whatsoever left is covered by open source libraries like

Apache Commons, Google Guava, Jackson, Gson, Apache POI, and others.

4) Powerful development tools e.g. Eclipse, Netbeans
You do not believe but, Eclipse and Netbeans have played a big role to make Java
one of the best programming languages. Coding in IDE is a pleasure, especially
if you have coded in another platform like DOS Editor or Notepad.

They help in code completion as well as provides the powerful debugging capability,
which is crucial for real-world development. With the help of Integrated Development
Environment (IDE)  Java development seems much easier, faster and fluent. It's easy
to find, refactor and read code using IDEs.

Apart from IDE, Java platform also has many other tools e.g.. Maven and ANT for
building Java applications, decompilers, JConsole, Visual VM for monitoring Heap
usage etc.

5) Wonderful Community Support

A strong and thriving community is Java programming language and the biggest strength
of the platform. No matter how good a language is, it will not survive, if there is no
community to support, help and share their knowledge.

Java is very fortunate, there are lots of active forums, stack overflows, open source
organizations and many Java user groups that help everything.

Community is helping beginners, advanced and even expert java programmers. Java
actually promotes community habit withdrawing and giving. Lots of programmers, who
use open source, contribute in the form of a commutator, tester etc.

6) Java is Everywhere

Surely, Java is everywhere, it's on the desktop, it's on mobile, it's on the card, almost
every place and so is Java programmers. According to me, Java programmer
outnumber any other programming language professional.

Though I don't have any data to back this up, it is based on experience. This huge
availability of Java programmers is another reason, why organization prefers to choose
Java for new development than any other programming language.

Having said that, programming is a very big as well as large  field and looking at C and
UNIX, which is still surviving and even stronger enough to live more 20 years, Java
also falls in the same league.

Though there are a lot of talks about functional programming, Scala, and other JVM
languages, they need to go a long way to match community, resources, and popularity
of Java.