Performing Output with System.out.println
Line 9 instructs the computer to perform an action—namely, to print the string of characters contained between the double quotation marks (but not the quotation marks themselves). A string is sometimes called 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 is known as the standard output object. It allows a Java applications to display information in the command window from which it executes. In recent versions of Microsoft Windows, the command window is the Command Prompt. In UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X, the command window is called a terminal window or a shell. Many programmers call it ...
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