Java Programming for Beginners

The main() function

Java code, like the English language, is read top down and left to right. Even if our project contains many files and many classes, we still need to start reading and executing our code at a specific point. We named this file and class HelloWorld, the same name as our project, because we would like it to be special and contain the public static void main(String[] args) method where the execution of our code will begin. That's quite a mouthful of jargon. For now, just type it out and know that this is the area of our code from where our Java program will begin reading and executing. Once again, this will become much clearer as we begin to learn Java; just know this is the starting point of our Java program. The main()