A Closer Look at your First Program

• Java is case sensitive.
• Comments
• // A single line comment.
• /*
        Multiple line comments.
      */
• Defining the class: public is a class modifier.
• A .java file may have no more than one public class.  It can have multiple non-public classes, but we'll get in to that much later.
• The class keyword, followed by the class name (HelloWorld) and the {, states the beginning of the class.
• The class ends with the counterpart }.
• Nearly all of the code falls between those two braces, except...
• import and package statements
• certain inner classes
• But we'll get into those much later.

Created by:  Brandan Jones December 17, 2001