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Java

Posted by Diego Murray
Diego Murray
2,515 Points

I need help differentiating between terms - Basic Java - HELP

difference between: console.printf and console.readLine

Are these methods? Attributes? Any other basic Vocab I should understand. Need help speaking Java.

1 Answer

Kevin Faust
Kevin Faust
15,353 Points

Hey Diego,

Yes they are methods.

In general: console.printf writes out text to the console and console.readline takes input text from the user.

EXAMPLE: console.printf("Hello") would write the word hello to the console.

EXAMPLE:console.readline() would make us type in an input. a possible use it that we can store that input as a variable to use later on.

String input = console.readline() would ask us to type something and then we store that in the "input" variable

Hope that helped!