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Create a simple JavaFX program

Create a simple JavaFX program

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Create a simple JavaFX program

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- [Voiceover] At this point, you should already have downloaded an integrated development environment of your choice. And be familiar with using this IDE. For this series, I'm using NetBeans. Which is available at NetBeans.org But, if you prefer Eclipse, or BlueJ, which are also free, interactive Java development environments, that is fine and the examples are easily adapted to those environments. If you need help downloading an integrated development environment, please see my video series Up and Running with Java. For those of you who have used a textbook to learn any kind of coding, you're probably very familiar with the Hello World! application. It is interesting to see that when we create a new JavaFX project in NetBeans, the default template includes the code for a simple Hello World! application. This example creates a button control in a window, that when clicked, displays "Hello World!" in the output window. Note, I do want to mention that it is possible to change the…

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