So read the relevant article for your operating system and once you’ve done that, for both the JDK and IntelliJ IDEA, there’s then a single article for you to go through, irrespective of the operating system you’re running and that gives you some configuration, or an overview of the configuration steps you need to take within IntelliJ, to get it all working together. And in addition, for IntelliJ, there’s also an article for the Windows platform, Mac, and Linux. Now if you’re wondering why we’re using Amazon Corretto and why we’re using JDK 11.īut getting back to this course though, there are Amazon Corretto articles, installation articles for the Java Development Kit, for Windows, Mac, and Linux in this section. In a nutshell, version 11 is the LTS, or long-term support version of Java. We’ll be using JDK version 11 in this course and not later versions. Now we’re going to be using an open-source version of a Java Development Kit, the Open JDK and that’s the creatable version we’re using is created by Amazon and they call it Amazon Corretto. Java Development Kit Installation OverviewĪll right, so it’s time now to install the Java Development Kit. Now if you wanna use another IDE, Integrated Development Environment, Eclipse, or something of that nature, you’re welcome to do that. You don’t need to spend any money for either of those tools actually and in the upcoming videos in this section of the course, I’m gonna show you how to get the Java Development Kit and IntelliJ IDEA working for Windows, Mac, and also for Linux. I started using it way back in the early 2000s and it’s a very powerful piece of software packed with lots of features for both beginners and pro developers, but the great thing about it is it’s extremely beginner-friendly as well and there’s a free community edition or paid ultimate edition. Now on I’m one of the early adopters of IntelliJ. Now we’re also gonna be using IntelliJ IDEA and that’s much like a word processor but for creating programs. Now JDK stands for the Java Development Kit and it’s the software that is used to create and run Java programs. So we’re going to be using JDK version 11 in this course.

Let’s talk about installing the software we need for this course.

Java Development Kit Installation OverviewĪll right so that’s now the housekeeping done.

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