Some of you might have heard of this program and it is fairly simple to use and really good for beginner programmers.
The program itself, supports many common coding languages today.

Before we can start coding, we will need a program to write our code on, and we will use NetBeans for this.

How to download NetBeans:

1. First you will need to check that you have the latest Java, installed. So to do that, we are going to go to [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] and download the latest Java version, available.

As for me, the latest version is Version 7 Update 25, so I am going to press:
"Free Java Download". [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

and

"Agree and Start Free Download" [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Now follow the instructions and proceed with your Java update download.

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2. Now that you have downloaded and installed your Java and made sure you have the latest version, we can continue downloading NetBeans itself.

So to do this you will first need to install JDK (Java Development Kit) and to do this, you must go to this site: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
And download the right version for your system from the box below.
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
(Remember to Accept the License Agreement before you download anything.)

Now you have downloaded the file, then on to installing it.
When your file is fully downloaded, go ahead and open it up.
Now go through the installation default, as it has been set.
Once your installation has completed the first part and your install -file looks like this
[ Register or Signin to view external links. ] you can go and press "Close".

Now you have downloaded and installed your JDK, you need to activate it.
And in order to do so, you will have to go to your Computer and Program Files, where you should see folder
Java
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Inside, there are two folders, jdk1.7.0_25 and jre7
We are going to press from jdk1.7.0_25 and inside, there is a folder, called
bin
we are going to press that folder and open it, here you see a lot of Applications etc.
but we dont mind those. What we want is the path of this folder.
How to get this is simple, just click the bar where it says Local Disk ( C: )/Program Files etc. [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Like so: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] <--- and this is out path.
Copy this text and select your Start menu, right click from your Computer and select Properties.

This window should pop-up: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
We are going to select, Advanced system settings

Then this window pops up: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
And we are going to select Environment Variables.

Here we are going to scroll down System variables section until we see Variable called Path.
Then we highlight that Variable and select
Edit...

Now you will see new window pop-up and here as the Variable value: we are going to set the path to our JDK, bin folder by simply copy pasting it in.

Now it should look like this: [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Once you have pasted that path in, just select Ok to all of these windows until you get to this one [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

Now we need to open our command prompt, by simply opening Run and type in
cmd
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Now in here, we will type few things to finish up our JDK installation.
First type in java [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
This will confirm the installation and configuration.

Next we type java -version [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
This will confirm your Java version and that you have JDK installed.
It should say something like this [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]

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3. Now we have got all extra "plug-ins" installed, we can finally move on to the NetBeans installation itself.

Now we are going to go to [ Register or Signin to view external links. ] where we will download our program.
Here you can see a big Download button on the front page [ Register or Signin to view external links. ]
Clicking that will lead you to the download page.
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They have many versions of NetBeans, some come with more individual extensions, and some are meant for some particular programming.
What we want to download though, is the version which comes with All external extensions.
(You can also go for the other ones if you only want to write some particular code.)

Then, once you have selected the one you want, go and click the Download button beneath that version and download the program.

When your NetBeans installer has downloaded, go and run that .exe and go with the installer.

Hope this helped for all you beginner programmers!

-JPEG