February 2014
Beginner
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System.out.println("Welcome to Java Programming!");
instructs the computer to perform an action—namely, to display the characters contained between the double quotation marks (the quotation marks themselves are not displayed). Together, the quotation marks and the characters between them are a string—also known as a character string or a string literal. White-space characters in strings are not ignored by the compiler. Strings cannot span multiple lines of code.
The System.out object—which is predefined for you—is known as the standard output object. It allows a Java application to display information in the command window from which it executes. In recent versions ...
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