Do you get all the tools to write a computer program when you apply to ICS or Stratford Career Institute ?

By “computer program,” I think you mean programming language. Programming languages are typically free. For example, you can download the Java Development Kit here.

If they don’t know that, then you probably don’t want to enroll.

Java is pretty much Java. To my knowledge there are only 3 different implementations out there, and they are all very much alike.

C++ on the other hand, is very divergent among different compilers, and there are a great many of those.

The reason why this matters is that programming instructors will frequently specify a particular implementaton of the language for students to use. That way code is guaranteed to produce the same results for everyone.

If the language being taught is Java or C++ then you can get them for free. Even though there are different versions of C++, the instructors would most likely choose a version that is free.