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- You might've noticed I used
%nfor new line, instead of the escape sequence\n. The reason for this is that Windows and Unix based systems (Like Mac and Linux) use different newline sequences.%nmakes the proper distinction.
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Okay so how'd you do?
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Again, now don't worry if you
had some sort of struggle.
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It's totally natural and
you are growing and
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honing your skills through that
process no matter what you were doing.
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So here's how I did it.
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So I needed to create
a string named place,
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and the place I chose
is called Kwik E Mart.
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So there we are, there's Kwik E Mart
inside of a string literal.
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You can tell because I've
got the double quotes there.
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And then I used the read line method.
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So that's off of the console, I used
console I used the read line method.
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One thing I want to note here is
see this L, it's capitalized, and
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that trips some people up sometimes
they forget to capitalize that.
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It is camel-cased, it's read Line,
two words, jammed together, camel cased.
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And I left a few spaces on it, too, so
that it's all on the same line, right?
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And then finally, we used Print+F
to print formatted text, right?
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And these %s's here are the placeholders
that line up with firstName and place.
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I'm also using %n here.
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Check the teachers notes on this video for
more on that.
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And then we can of course run it right,
we can say clear && javac and again
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files called Greeter, I am gonna make
sure I say that, don't forget to save.
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And we're going to run it.
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There is my JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS.
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What is your first name?
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It's Craig.
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Hi, Craig.
Welcome to Kwik E Mart.
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Great!
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How do you do?
I wanna remind you, keep on practicing and
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make sure you let us know if
you'd like to see more of these.
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See you in class real soon.
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