Hello world program of Java -Explained
Hello world
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class Hello {
public static void main(String args[]){
System.out.println("Hello world");
}
}
When you compile and run your program you will get the output as
Hello world
//program that every developer loves to execute
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class Hello {
Here class is a keyword which declares the new class. Hello is the name of
class which is also known as identifier. The entire class definition,
including all of its members, will be between the curly braces
{}.
public static void main(String args[]){
This is the line at which the program will begin executing
All java applications begin execution by calling main()
The public keyword is an access specifier, which allows
the programmer to control the visibility of class member. class preceded by
public keyword can by accessed by the code outside the class in which it is
declared.
The keyword static indicates that the particular member
belongs to a type itself, rather than to an instance of that type. Means only
one instance of main() is created which is shared across all
instances of the class.
The void keyword tells the compiler that main() does not
return any value.
main() is the method called when a Java application
begins.
String args[] declares a parameter named args, which is an
array of instance of the class String. args receives any command-line
arguments present when the program is executed.
System.out.println("Hello world");
this line outputs the string "Hello world" followed by a new line on the screen.
In System.out System is predefined class
that provides access to the system, and out is the output stream that
is connected to the console.
println()displays the string which is passed to it. It can also be used to display
other types of information too on the output console.
println() statment ends with a semicolon.
All statements in java ends with a semicolon. The above program only has one statement.
A block of code is written inside curly braces {}.
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