This video shows us how to write our very first program, the standard "Hello World" text printing program. Although we haven't covered syntax to this point, the program is simple and straight-forward.

To maximize your learning from this course, I highly recommend that follow along and perform all of the actions which I am performing in the demonstration. This will help you to learn the material, understand what is truly going on, make mistakes from which you can learn, and ultimately retain the knowledge from these instructional videos.

Although we will have a working file 'HelloWorld.' by the end of this lesson, I am not including the file for download on purpose. This will encourage you to create the file on your own. Additionally, if you have any mistakes, you'll have to fix them. Hopefully you will find this a simple and useful activity.

Please note: If you are using the Java 7 SDK, you will need to select the default folder installation path for the Java 7 version you are on, instead of java 6. Use that path when working with the environment and/or manual programming to execute the javac compiler and java runtime executable programs.