Introduction to Programming in Java/Introduction to Java

Program: Program is a Collection of Statements or set of instructions used to perform a specific operation.
Software:
Collection of programs is known as “Software or Computer based application”, which can be used to operate computer or various devices. Computer based application or software’s can be developed to using a special language is called programming language.
Example: C, C++, java, .Net etc……
Classification of computer based application:
Computer based application are classified into two groups (types)
Desktop applications.
Network based applications.
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