A new term starts and a group of fresh faced year 7's join our after school coders club for teens. I introduce the club and coders and talk about Java programming and java games programming that we will be doing in the sessions.
James Gosling slings a pie in the face of a Bill Gates impersonator at the beginning of his keynote address at the Worldwide JavaOne Developer Conference in San Francisco, March 24, 1998.
Number one programming langauge in the world - http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
9 million developers - https://www.java.com/en/about/
3 Billion Mobile Phones Run Java
5 Billion Java Cards in Use
1.1 billion desktops run Java
930 million Java Runtime Environment downloads each year
3 billion mobile phones run Java
31 times more Java phones ship every year than Apple and Android combined
100% of all Blu-ray players run Java
1.4 billion Java Cards are manufactured each year
Java powers set-top boxes, printers, Web cams, games, car navigation systems, lottery terminals, medical devices, parking payment stations, and more.