Introduction to BBj Development

About this course

This course is for all who know how to write software in some programming language like Java, C#, or others, and who want to quickly navigate BBj to write for the GUI or for the browser. It explains the very first steps for setting up the development environment and then builds all the basic knowledge that a developer should know to successfully develop in BBj.

Start with Set up your environment and get started.

You find all practice tasks on the Exercises page.

Sections

📄️Set up your environment and get started

Install your tools, write your first programs and learn the basic syntax of BBj.

📄️Object-oriented syntax in BBj

Learn how to write classes in BBj, use them across programs and build an object-oriented dialog.

📄️Web development with BBj's DWC

Run your BBj programs in the browser with the DWC and style them with CSS.

📄️Theming and styling the BBj web components

Style the BBj web components with CSS parts and themes, and switch to the dark theme.

Sample downloads

• better-hello-world.zip: The Better Hello World program from section 1.
• oo-samples.zip: Car.bbj, CarApplication.bbj and MyDialog.bbj from the object-oriented videos.
• dwc-lesson-start.zip: The Sample.bbj file where the web development lesson starts.
• dwc-lesson-result.zip: Sample.bbj and sample.css as they look after the web development lesson.
• exercises.zip: A possible solution for every exercise, written for this book.
• intro-bbj-samples.zip: All samples in one ZIP.