Program A Day: Getting Started
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Chapter IntroductionSome of you have seen your first program this week. Good idea to try writing some programs yourself. Programming certainly gets easier with practice.
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Program Descriptions
Hello World!
You're joining a tradition! Most computer scientists begin their programming career by writing a short program that outputs the message "Hello World". Of course, you could customize your message.
TO DO: 1. Write a message that outputs a greeting in System.out. 2. Test your code. 3. Now revise your code so the message is also output in a dialog box (use JOptionPane) 4. Test your code. 5. Now add a String variable. 6. Use JOptionPane to get the user to input a name. 7. Revise your output to read "Hello [name]" where name is the value stored in the String variable.
MadLib
A Madlib is a fun little game where a player is prompted to enter (input) a series of nouns, verbs, numbers, etc. Then the words are inserted in a story or poem, often with kind of funny results. For example, ask the user to enter...
To Do: Write a program that lets the user play a Madlib.
Solutions
Hello World
MadLib
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