Reviewing Our Feedback

[MUSIC] 0:00 [SOUND] Welcome back! 0:04 I have solicited some feedback and some example stories for 0:05 us to ensure that our program is working the way that we wanted to. 0:08 We will use this information to iterate and improve our program. 0:12 I'm excited [LAUGH] to look through these. 0:16 Let's look. Here's the first one here. 0:18 It says, Craig is a big dork. 0:19 Nice. 0:23 While true, it's not very nice. 0:24 Okay, let's look at this other one here. 0:26 [LAUGH] Of course it starts the same way. 0:28 Craig is a, what does that even mean? 0:31 [LAUGH] Well, one thing is certain here. 0:38 We are going to need to put some sort of age restriction on this. 0:42 After just reviewing those first two responses, I am certain 0:45 that we better limit this from getting in the hands of someone under the age of 13. 0:48 So, let's write some code that stops the program from running, 0:52 if the user doesn't meet our age requirements. 0:56 In order to do this we're gonna need to pick up a few new skills. 0:59 To put this age restriction in place, we are going to need to work with numbers. 1:03 Now, Java has a data type that deals with whole numbers, and it's called integer. 1:07 We'll store the user's age in a variable of the integer data type. 1:12 Then we're going to use what is known as a conditional statement. 1:17 Conditionals help us to make choices based on information we know. 1:21 We make decisions like these all the time. 1:25 A clear example is to take a look at the conditions that are made by users of 1:28 an online dating program. 1:31 I will go out with that guy, if he doesn't smoke, doesn't have kids, and 1:33 likes to go to concerts. 1:38 Or, I will date anyone who is older than 28 and less than 50. 1:39 Only after these conditions are met is contact made. 1:44 So the conditional we are specifically looking for is, is the user older than 13? 1:47 The answer that we get back is either yes or no, true or false. 1:53 In Java this is a data type referred to as a boolean. 1:59 And last but not least, we'll learn how to immediately exit the program so 2:03 that it doesn't continue running after we've decided they aren't 2:07 old enough to use the program. 2:10 Are you ready? 2:12 Let's go put a PG13 warning on this program. 2:13 All right, so first things first, we gonna make a new variable called age. 2:16 So remember, we're gonna make an integer data type. 2:21 So the way we do it is we start by stating the data type name, which is int. 2:23 And then we type the name of the variable, which is age. 2:28 And let's go ahead and set ourselves up to fail. 2:31 And let's set it = 12. 2:33 And then we'll press the semi-colon of course to end the statement, great. 2:35 Okay, so now let's go ahead and add our conditional. 2:40 Now remember, we're gonna check and see if the person is younger than 13. 2:43 In other words, if the age is less than 13, exit. 2:46 Okay, let's write that. 2:51 So, first we'll write the keyword if. 2:52 And then we'll add an open parentheses. 2:56 And here's where we write our expression. 2:58 And that's the condition that must be true for the code following it to run. 2:59 So, which we said earlier that is age. 3:04 And then we're gonna do < 13. 3:06 And we're gonna close the parentheses, and we're gonna give a space and 3:10 a curly brace. 3:14 And a curly brace opens up a block of code. 3:15 And so let's just go ahead really quick and add a comment here. 3:18 And this is where we're gonna insert our exit code. 3:21 And then let's close that curly brace. 3:24 You could have many lines of code in this code block here. 3:27 So let's go ahead and 3:31 let's add a new line that says that they're not allowed to use this. 3:31 So, we'll say, Sorry you must be at least 13 to use this program. 3:37 We're gonna go ahead and do a new line sequence in the quotes, and 3:45 the semi-colon. 3:50 Okay, now what we'll do is we'll tell the program that it's time to quit or exit. 3:52 So far the only object that we've really used is called console, but 3:57 we're about to see a new one. 4:01 And that's the global system object. 4:02 This object has a method on it which is called exit. 4:05 Which as you might guessed, causes the program to exit. 4:07 The exit method takes an argument for the status code, 4:11 which zero means that the system exited intentionally, we had control of it. 4:14 Any other non-zero value represents a status code that is used to state that it 4:19 exited abnormally. 4:23 So let's go ahead and write that out. 4:25 So again, that's System with a big S dot exit, 4:26 and then the status code of 0, great. 4:31 I'm gonna save that. 4:34 And let's give that a go and see if it works. 4:35 Let's run that, and boom. 4:41 Now because we hard coded, again, we hard coded the edge up here at 12. 4:44 It is always gonna run into this if block. 4:48 And these two statements are gonna run. 4:50 And it's gonna exit and the rest of the code won't go. 4:51 So we won't get prompted for the rest of these. 4:53 So it's working, great! 4:56 Wow, lots of good stuff! 4:58 We use a new data type, we learned about if statements and code blocks. 5:00 And learned how to safely exit from our program. 5:04 One thing that I wanted to point out about the int data type was that it was 5:07 all lowercase, unlike the other data type we had seen. 5:10 Remember that was the string with a capital S. 5:14 When a data type is lowercase it is a special kind of data type called 5:17 a primitive. 5:21 int is one of eight primitive data types that come out of the box with Java. 5:22 Basically, primitives have special characteristics 5:27 about the kind of data they can store. 5:30 And that's about it. 5:32 They don't give you methods or properties. 5:33 They're just data. 5:35 How primitive, right? 5:37 For now, I just want you to be aware of the term primitive 5:39 in case you run into it. 5:42 So, int is a primitive data type, and string and 5:44 all other non-primitive types are called object data types. 5:47 Check the teachers notes for more information. 5:51 [SOUND] Now our application is safely blocked from pre-teens. 5:53 Well, actually, at the moment it's pretty much blocked permanently, right? 5:57 We need to make that age variable dynamic by prompting our user. 6:01 But before we get there, 6:05 let's do a quick exercise to make sure all this new information is making sense. 6:06