End of the Chapter

Notice that in addition to pairs of braces that match, there are pairs of parentheses (), and pairs of brackets [] that match. Large programs will have many of these matching pairs, which are used to group sections of the program together.

class Haiku
{
  public static void main ( String[] args )
  {
    System.out.println( "On a withered branch" );
    System.out.println( "A crow has just alighted:" );
    System.out.println( "Nightfall in autumn." );
  }
}

Brace yourself! you have reached the end of the chapter. You may wish to review the following. Click on a subject that interests you to go to where it was discussed.

• Hello World example program.
• methods and classes.
• Syntax Errors.
• Edit, compile, and run cycle.
• Program bugs.
• Importance of spaces and newlines in programs.
• Comments
• Multiline Comments
• Matching braces.

The next chapter will discuss a way to run the programs in these notes without actually typing them in.