Java Term of the Week: Source Code

Once you’ve begun to learn the syntax of Java and understand how to build Java programs, you will find yourself up to your elbows in source code. Don’t worry, that’s not a bad thing. In fact, it’s exactly where you want to find yourself!

Programmers write software programs using a programming language, e.g., Java. The programming language provides a series of instructions they can use to create the program they want. The instructions a programmer uses to build the program are known as itssource code.