Java is a cross-platform programming language from Oracle that anyone can use. One thing that you can do with Java is create a text document that you can open in Windows' Notepad program.

Back in the early days of Java, developers created applications using nothing more than notepad and the DOS command prompt. Thanks to the advent of IDEs, those days are gone forever. Short for ...

First things first, you will have to write the code that you want to run and save that as a Java executable file. For this purpose, you can use either MS Word or Notepad.