Students in Java I and Java II programming course are learning

the basics of computer programming. We also cover some of the

 history of computers, flow charting and programming logic.

Java is free.  You can download the software that we use at 

home - https://java.com/download.  We use JGrasp to compile 

and debug our code.  It is also free.  This is the link - 

http://www.jgrasp.org/

The state of Texas encourages students to learn Java because 
it is platform independent so it can run on a Windows based
computer, Apple computer or Unix computer.  

Here is a tool for binary to decimal Conversions.