Android How to Program, 3/e

A.3 Modifying Your First Java Program

Welcome to Java Programming! can be displayed several ways. Class Welcome2, shown in Fig. A.3, uses two statements (lines 9–10) to produce the output shown in Fig. A.1.

Fig. A.3 Printing a line of text with multiple statements

Figure A.3 Full Alternative Text

The program is similar to Fig. A.1, so we discuss only the changes here. Line 2 is a comment stating the purpose of the program. Line 4 begins the Welcome2 class declaration. Lines 9–10 of method main display one line of text. The first statement uses System.out’s method print to display a string. Each print or println statement resumes displaying characters ...