This is the 51st Step towards gaining the Programming Enlightenment series. If you didn’t learn the 50th Step, read it.
What is “Hello World”?
A “Hello, World!” program is a computer program that outputs or displays “Hello, World!” to a user
Actually, it came from a cartoon that showed an egg and a chick and the chick was saying, “Hello, world”, according to Brian Kernighan who first used it in C.
Why learn to say “Hello World”?
Modern day development using IDEs hide away the complexity of compiling, assembling and in case of android, gradle hides the android apk file build process.
In order to understand the basics of how program actually works inside the hood, we should learn how to say “Hello World” in a raw form.
TL;DR Understand how building an application works. Learn how IDE makes development life easy.
Go to 50th Step
Go to the 52nd path.
References:
- 97 things Every Programmer Should Know ~ Git Book
- 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know ~ Paperback
