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Lathan Griffith
Courses Plus Student 243 PointsConsole Console?
Why use console console?
I am not an absolute beginner and In my opinion its easier to learn from a scratch workspace, but why are you using console?
Public class HelloWorld {
public static void main (String[] args) {
System.out.println("Hello world,");
System.out.println("This is nothing special.");
}
return 0;
}
Would perform the same task.
3 Answers
Craig Dennis
Treehouse TeacherWe are going to be building a console application. Console is the proper abstraction, and I didn't want to get into using too many objects before introducing them. Stick with it, I use System.out.println in the next course.
Trying to avoid the cognitive overload, which happens to just about everyone who attempts to learn this overly verbose language. ;)
That make sense?
Andrew McCormick
17,730 PointsIt would seem they chose this way because he wants to illustrate working with multiple lines . In the Video he puts a new line character after Hello World line in your example to show creating a new line, where as your example would put both messages in one line, then return to next line.
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 PointsWhy downvoting Andrews answer?
Upvoted
Lathan Griffith
Courses Plus Student 243 PointsI see, that still isnt answering my question, I am asking is why are they running off of console?
wouldnt
public class FirstProject {
public static void main (String[] args) {
have the same affect?
Lathan Griffith
Courses Plus Student 243 PointsLathan Griffith
Courses Plus Student 243 Points/* Edit
or in my case I would run it as one line.
System.out.println("Hello world, This is nothing special\n");