Python is in effect 'promoted' for use on the Pi, at least in part for its ease-of-learning for new programmers. The most recent releases of Raspbian include development and runtime support for all these languages. There are many programming languages available for the Raspberry Pi, but I'll limit the discussion to 'professional grade' programming languages that target standalone programs, support multi-tasking, allow hardware and network access, etc. The rest of this introduction describes the motivation for using Java and for remote development using NetBeans.

Magic! You can even debug the running program, setting breakpoints and examining variable values. Once everything is set up properly, you can write a Java program in NetBeans and then a single click compiles and builds the program on the workstation, downloads the program to the Pi, runs the program on the Pi, and delivers output to the NetBeans console. NetBeans runs on a workstation (a desktop or laptop computer, not the Raspberry Pi) connected via Wifi to the Raspberry Pi. The approach is not only efficient, it is free!įundamentally, the approach is remote development using NetBeans. I've used the approach to develop Java capabilities ranging from low level device support to multi-threaded and network-based programs. This Instructable describes a very efficient approach for developing Java programs for the Raspberry Pi.

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