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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition
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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey Deitel
June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
Pearson
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Summary

Section 2.2 Your First Program in Java: Printing a Line of Text

  • A Java application (p. 36) executes when you use the java command to launch the JVM.

  • Comments (p. 37) document programs and improve their readability. The compiler ignores them.

  • An end-of-line comment begins with // and terminates at the end of the line on which it appears.

  • Traditional comments (p. 37) can be spread over several lines and are delimited by /* and */.

  • Javadoc comments (p. 37), delimited by /** and */, enable you to embed program documentation in your code. The javadoc program generates web pages based on these comments.

  • A syntax error (p. 37) occurs when the compiler encounters code that violates Java’s language rules. It’s similar to a grammar error ...

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ISBN: 9780134751962