Java Programming for Beginners

Java syntax

You might have noticed that NetBeans has been yelling at us for a little bit. There's a light bulb and a red dot on the left and some red jittering under our text, a lot like if we had made a spelling error in some text editors. And that's really what we've done. We've made a syntax mistake. There's something clearly wrong with our Java code and NetBeans knows it.

There are two things wrong here. The first is that our code doesn't end with a semicolon. Java doesn't do a good job of reading spaces and carriage returns, so we need to put semicolons at the end of every functional line of code for the same reason that a Morse code operator would send the message "stop" at the end of every line. Let's add a semicolon at the end of ...