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Setting up your environment well this is Carmen the carpenter ant like

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most ants she's industrious but that's just debug life [Ant carrying a raisin]

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so because carmen wants to bust out of this floorboard some day and make

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something of herself she doesn't want to be mindlessly chipping away at wood pulp [Ant chipping at wood]

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all her life well she's working on advancing her coding career she knows

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that the first thing she needs to do is set up for coding environment

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well she starts with a couple of internet downloads the Java development

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kit also known as the JDK cleverly named in

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either a text editor or an integrated development environment also known as an

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IDE well when it comes to the text editor or

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IDE she's got plenty of options it's her first time working with Java so she [List of IDE items]

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should probably go with eclipse or NetBeans since they have some built-in

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tools there to help make Carmen's debugging life easier but first there's

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the JDK as Carmen knows java's on just about any computer but the tools to [Java logo appears on computer screen]

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develop it aren't the JDK will give her the space on her computer its an apple

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seed macbook light in case you were wondering with the tools to comply and

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run her very own grade a homegrown java code now legal in California, she picks

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the download that matches her operating system and follows the steps for [Carmen downloads a file]

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installation for operating systems the apple seed

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so her installation process looks like this where all she needs to do is

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double-click on the box here we go and click continue until it begins [Mouse clicks on box]

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installing so if she were working on a Windows computer and could end up

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looking like this where all she'd need to do is follow these same installation

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steps well now Carmen's got the JDK setup on [Carmen clicks close button]

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her computer to make most of the code doing she'll want a place to write her

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code - back to that list of code writing apps now Carmen wants to be up and

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running as fast as possible so we're going to skip the IDE s for now they're

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helpful but they also have a pretty high learning curve or steep one and Carmen

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isn't one to chew the pulp so we'll come back to them later all right so there [Carmen waiting]

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are two flavors of code writing software a text editor and an IDE no matter which

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one carmen uses this codes going to end up printing the

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line how do you do fellow bugs to the screen first a text editor Carmen's [Brackets explanation of code]

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going to go with brackets which has some basic debugging features and is little

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slicker than the others text editors - to download brackets to head to the

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download page cleverly she downloads and run through the setup process which

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looks like this for a Mac and this for Windows then she opens it up on her

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computer I don't we'll get to what all this code means later but right now we

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just want to test and make sure everything's working which means Carmen

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should save the file somewhere easy to find on the computer like oh let's say [An apple mac keyboard]

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the desktop which by the way is usually a great place to find the breadcrumbs [Ants carrying breadcrumbs]

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all right well she goes to the file menu and click save as then picks the desktop

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as her saved to destiny location okay so Carmen's going to want a separate folder

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for her code later but for now she'll just save it to the desktop all right

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time for her to head to the terminal if using Windows 10 Carmen would type CMD

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into the search box but she happens to be an OS X so she types terminal into [Carmen types terminal in search field]

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the search field boom black screen perfect that's just what we want but

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there's the thing wherever Carmen is on the terminal might not be the desktop in

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fact it's probably at the root of her directory while she can figure out where

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she is in that directory by entering LS on OS X or "dir" if she was using Windows 10

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got it well then she uses the command CD to enter the desktop

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directory well she checks to make sure the Java

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files showing up by entering wait for it LS or Dir just like the last time she [Carmen checking desktop]

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check to see what folders and files were in the directory but once the file is

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created and ready to go Carmen needs to make sure the computer can read the

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command which she'll do with the command Java C followed by the name of the

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program including that dot Java ending all right well the command Java C [Carmen appears below a line of code]

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compiles all the fancy-schmancy Java code into something the computer can run

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or crawl in Carmen's case this command is going to create a file with the same

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name as the Java file except now it's got the ending dot class [Arrow points to class of java file]

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well the dot class file can also be called the compiled code which means

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it's been compiled so that the computer can actually read

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it so Carmen types in Java first program hits enter and suddenly sees how do you

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do fellow bugs and shows up on your screen

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Carmen has now run a program using the command it's a good feeling isn't it [Carmen jumping up and down on the enter key]

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even better than being able to carry 30 times your own body weight

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