Hour 2. Writing Your First Program

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Entering a program into a text editor

• Naming a Java program with the class statement

• Organizing a program with bracket marks

• Storing information in a variable

• Displaying the information stored in a variable

• Saving, compiling, and running a program

• Fixing errors

As you learned during Hour 1, “Becoming a Programmer,” a computer program is a set of instructions that tells a computer what to do. These instructions are given to a computer using a programming language.

During this hour, you create your first Java program by entering it into a text editor. When that’s done, you save the program, compile it, and test it out.