[MUSIC]

Hey hey, first off,

I wanna say awesome job choosing to make practice part of your routine.

Practice is an excellent way to make sure that what you've been learning

is sticking.

Now, this specific practice session is one of a series that we hope to create

over time, so please, make sure you let us know how you liked it and

if you'd like to see more of these.

For this session, I'd like you to practice doing IO.

Now remember, that stands for Input and Output.

Taking input from the user, and outputting it to the console.

As long as you've completed Stage 2 of the Java Basics Course,

you will have the proper skills to complete this practice.

Now, I've attached a new workspace to this video, and it looks like this.

Now, this is the basic shell of a Java application.

And I've gone ahead and I've imported the console object for you.

And it's all ready for you to use.

So in order to do this practice, the idea

is that you're going to read through these to-do's here and complete them.

Now the point of this little program is to be a greeter to

someone entering a place of your choosing, actually.

You know, like how some stores have people that greet you when you come in.

And in fact I have an example project, I'm not going to show you the code,

it's hidden underneath here.

So what's gonna happen, you'll notice that the file is called Greeter.java.

So we're gonna compile it, right?

We're gonna clear the screen, compile it, and then we're gonna run it.

So this is what it looks like when it runs.

Now, see I get those commands too.

A lot of people complain in the Java basics course that they don't see those,

but here it is.

I'm getting them too.

So my first name is Craig.

And it says, hello Craig!

Welcome to Kwik E Mart, cuz Kwik E Mart is what I chose.

Let's take a look at those to-dos real quick.

For this first to do, it says, create a new string named place and

assign it a value of your choosing.

For this example, I chose Kwik E Mart.

So then I provided you the console like we talked about.

And we want to prompt the user what is your first name and

store that in a new variable?

And then finally, we want a print out to the console, hello first name,

welcome to the, place that you chose, all using those variables.

This might seem like a fairly simple application, but

it's great practice in recalling the syntax and flow of the application.

If you can't quite get it, don't fret.

I show how I did it in the video right after this.

But please, do give it a try.

That struggle to remember the syntax and structure is well worth it.

That recall will pay off in the long run.

It's just like muscles.

No pain, no gain for your brain.

You got this.