Step 3: Copy the Program

Step 3 is to copy the characters of the program from the Web browser's window into the clipboard. Later (in step 4) the characters will be copied from the clipboard into your editor. Step 3 involves some skills using Windows that you may not have used, yet. Here is the example program, again:

class HelloPlanets
{
  public static void main ( String[] args )
  {
    String[] planets = {"Mercury", "Venus",  "Earth",   "Mars", "Jupiter", 
                        "Saturn",  "Uranus", "Neptune", "Pluto"};
  
    for ( int j=0; j< planets.length; j++ )
    {
      System.out.println("Hello " + planets[j] +"!" );
    }
  }

}

First, the characters of the program must be "highlighted" by clicking the mouse on the first character, and dragging to the last character:

1. In the browser window (this window), put the mouse pointer on the "c" of "class".
2. Push down on the left mouse button. Without lifting up on the mouse button, drag down until the final "}" of the program is covered.
3. Lift up on the mouse button.

Be careful not to click the mouse again in the window or you will cancel your selection. (But you can always do it again.) After you have done this, you should see something like the following:

The last part of Step 3 is to copy the selected text into the clipboard.