Problem

Lets create a program which takes some text input from a user and then makes a Mad Lib out of it. We're going to look at making this solution with the following:

• JOptionPane with input and output.
• Input with Strings.
• Commenting our code.

The Mad Lib will follow this format:

"The ___________ in _______ like to ____ the ____."
     plural noun    country         verb     noun

...by students

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Solution

Start by creating the Class. We're going to call our class "MadLib".

public class MadLib
{
}

Next, we can make our main method. Put the main method between the curly-braces of the MadLib class. When we run our finished program, whatever code we write into the main method will run.

public static void main(String [] args)
{
}

For now it's not important to know just what each word means when writing the main method, but it must look like the code above in order to work properly.

Now that we have the bare basics for our program to compile and run. Keep in mind, running doesn't necissarily mean doing any work. This would be a good time to plan out what we intend to do with our program. We'll do this by adding some inline [Comments] to the code. This will help us remeber what we intend to do and when we're finished, will improve the readability of our code later.

Using comments lets outline the overall steps to our application:

• Create our variables
• Get the user's input
• Show output (the completed Mad Lib)

public static void main(String []args)
{
	// Create variables

	// Get input
	
	// Show output
	
	// End of program
}

We want to store our words for the Mad Lib in strings. To do that, let's declare some strings. We need to give the strings some logical names. Remeber we need one string for each of the following:

• a plural noun
• a country
• a verb
• a noun

Using our [Variables_and_Literals#Naming_Guidelines

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