Summary
Section 2.2 A First Program in Java: Printing a Line of Text
Computer programmers create applications by writing computer programs. A Java application is a computer program that executes when you use the java command to launch the JVM.
Programmers insert comments to document programs and improve their readability. The Java compiler ignores comments.
A comment that begins with // is called an end-of-line (or single-line) comment because the comment terminates at the end of the line on which it appears.
Traditional (multiple-line) comments can be spread over several lines and are delimited by /* and */. All text between the delimiters is ignored by the compiler.
Javadoc comments are delimited by /** and */. Javadoc comments enable programmers ...
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