Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.linkpendium.com!news.linkpendium.com!panix!not-for-mail From: Wayne Dernoncourt Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Getting started with Java on a Mac Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 09:41:16 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 10 Message-ID: <0001HW.CB35ACBC000174A4B038C9DF@news.panix.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-74-103-75-123.bltmmd.fios.verizon.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1326465676 12976 74.103.75.123 (13 Jan 2012 14:41:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:41:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Hogwasher/4.3 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:11301 I've been looking for a programming language to help me write tools to do stuff. For example generate 2-D plots from CSV or text files. C++ can do that (and more) but there's a lot more overhead and maintenance that that requires. In the past I've used Tcl/Tk for that kind of task but that seems to be dying, Excel with Visual Basic can do most of that but not so much on the Mac. I have a book "Core Jave" by Sun but I'm at a loss on how to start Java on my Mac. Is there any help for this noob?