Making your Computer Ready for Java

Before you start programming you need a programming platform. There are many programming platform these days like Ada, c++, Java etc. We are here dealing with Java.
To make our computer ready to program in Java we need to have Java Development Kit installed which can be downloaded from here . The you need to download Java IDE or other software that can write java files (can be done with notepad but tedious). My personal favorite is Eclipse, its and IDE and it is easy to use, helps to find bug and alot of plugins are ready for eclipse which makes programming more easier.
Some IDE are
Eclipse (here)
Net Beans (here)
Both of them are free ware. Net Beans is nice for GUI programming as it provides drag and drop authorization.

After installing Java JDK and IDE you are almost ready to go. You need to change system variable to run.
For vista:
Right click on My computer go to properties
And then to Advanced System Setting
Vista will show security Dialog, Allow that
Then in Advanced tab go to Environmental Variables go to path in lower field and click edit go to the last put " ; " and open my computer go to the destination where java is installed and go to bin and compy the destination link from address bar and paste it in path after " ; " and click ok ok then you are ready to go.