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Let's get the Official Oracle Java SE JDK installed on your machine.
Mac specific instructions
- JDK Installation Instructions for Mac
- You might have Spotlight disabled or bound to a different key instead of
cmd+space. In this case find Terminal in your applications folder.
Windows specific instructions
- JDK Installation Instructions for Windows
- To copy and paste from a command prompt, click the window icon (>) in the PowerShell window, and choose Edit > Mark, highlight and then choose Edit > Copy.
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All right, so like we talked about,
there are multiple JDKs available.
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We're going to install
the official one from Oracle.
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Now, one thing we should talk about here,
it is more than likely that this
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installation flow is going
to change over time.
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Therefore, what I'm going to
demo here will most likely be
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out of date by the time
you're viewing this video.
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So, please don't be alarmed
if things look different.
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I'm going to do my best to keep things
updated in the teacher's notes.
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And if you find things confusingly
different, please take it to the forum and
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we'll all get things sorted out.
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Okay, so in your favorite search engine,
go ahead and search for Java JDK.
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Great, and there's the first hit here, and
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it's Java SE development kit
8 is what we are looking for.
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Click that.
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Page has a bunch of information on it.
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It's a little strange, but
if you come down here a bit,
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you'll see the development kit and
the current version is 8u45.
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Remember, it's probably gonna be different
by the time you're watching this.
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So the way that this works, you have to
choose this Accept License Agreement.
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So I'm gonna do that right now, and
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then I'm gonna choose I am
running on a Mac currently.
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So you can see here,
you can choose the different types.
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I'm gonna go ahead and
click the Mac version.
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I'm gonna start that download.
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And while that's downloading,
I'm gonna come over here and read what
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we just agreed to, so this Oracle binary
code license agreement for Java SE.
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Okay, so it says, Oracle America
Incorporated for on and all we have.
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No, I'm just kidding.
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Wouldn't that be horrible if
I sat here and read that?
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But, seriously you should read this all.
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It's pretty short.
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It's not that bad.
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One thing that we can we could talk
about here while this is downloading,
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is the fact that there are two different
types of Windows here that are available
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for Microsoft Windows.
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So if you don't know if you're running
the 64 bit or not, go ahead and
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check in the teacher's notes, and
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I have helped you be able to figure
out which version you're running.
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That is, of course,
if you're running Windows.
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Okay, I'll pop right back when
this is done downloading.
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Okay, so that download finished, and
I went and followed the instructions in
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the teacher's notes of this video,
and made sure that I installed things.
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So things have been installed correctly.
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I'm gonna make sure that they
have been installed, and
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I'm gonna do that by
opening up a terminal.
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Mac's and Windows have different
ways of getting to the terminals.
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And since I'm on a Mac,
I'm gonna press Cmd+Space and
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I'm gonna type the word Terminal.
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I'm gonna press Enter, and
that's gonna open up a terminal.
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Great.
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If I was on Windows, I would press Windows
key R, and then I'd type powershell, and
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it would open up a new
terminal over there.
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So since Java's now
been added to our path,
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I should be able to type java -version.
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And it will return back
the version that I just installed.
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And again, remember your version
number here might look different.
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If you don't get this,
try re-opening up a terminal again,
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and if that doesn't work, there's most
likely something wrong with your path.
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Check out the teacher's notes for help.
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Congrats, we now have Java installed.
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Now in order to pass the next exercise,
which wraps up this portion of the course,
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simply copy these results and
paste them into the challenge.
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Here, I'm gonna copy it and show you,
and then I'll see you in the next video.
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So I'm gonna highlight.
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I'm gonna right-click,
and then choose Copy.
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And I'm gonna paste
that into the exercise.
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So see you in a bit.
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