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System.out.println("Enter the phone age in years:"); | outputs "Enter the phone age in years" for user to respond to | We prompt the user to enter the phone age in years. | 4 |
int phoneAge = scan.nextInt(); | defines a new int as the input from the user | We read the phone age by calling the nextInt() method because this input is an integer. | 3 |
int phoneAge = scan.nextInt(); | defines a new int as the input from the user | We need to read the phone age that the user enters and store it in a variable. | 3 |
System.out.println("Enter whether the phone is broken (true or false):"); | Asks user a true or false question | We prompt the user to enter whether the phone is broken. | 3 |
boolean isBroken = scan.nextBoolean(); | creates a boolean variable defined by the user input | We need to read whether the phone is broken and store it in a variable. | 3 |
boolean isBroken = scan.nextBoolean(); | creates a boolean variable defined by the user input | The variable isBroken is true when the phone is broken, and false otherwise. | 2 |
boolean isBroken = scan.nextBoolean(); | creates a boolean variable defined by the user input | We read whether the phone is broken by calling the nextBoolean() method because this input is a boolean. | 2 |
scan.close(); | ends input capability | We close the scanner as we do not want to process any input from the user in the rest of the program. | 4 |
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in); | Data entry | To read the input values from the user, we need to define a Scanner object. | 2 |
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in); | Data entry | We need to read and process the values that the user enters. | 3 |
System.out.println("Enter the phone age in years:"); | On-screen display "Enter the phone age in years:" | We prompt the user to enter the phone age in years. | 4 |
int phoneAge = scan.nextInt(); | Telphone age entry | We read the phone age by calling the nextInt() method because this input is an integer. | 2 |
int phoneAge = scan.nextInt(); | Telphone age entry | We need to read the phone age that the user enters and store it in a variable. | 2 |
System.out.println("Enter whether the phone is broken (true or false):"); | Shows the phrase: "Enter whether the phone is broken (true or false):" | We prompt the user to enter whether the phone is broken. | 4 |
boolean isBroken = scan.nextBoolean(); | Whether it is broken or not | We need to read whether the phone is broken and store it in a variable. | 3 |
boolean isBroken = scan.nextBoolean(); | Whether it is broken or not | The variable isBroken is true when the phone is broken, and false otherwise. | 2 |
boolean isBroken = scan.nextBoolean(); | Whether it is broken or not | We read whether the phone is broken by calling the nextBoolean() method because this input is a boolean. | 2 |
scan.close(); | Closes entries | We close the scanner as we do not want to process any input from the user in the rest of the program. | 2 |
boolean needPhone = isBroken || phoneAge >= 3; | determines a boolean (T/F) based on what the user inputted or if the phoneAge value is greater than or equal to 3 | We use the || operator (called or) to combine the two conditions. | 3 |
boolean needPhone = isBroken || phoneAge >= 3; | determines a boolean (T/F) based on what the user inputted or if the phoneAge value is greater than or equal to 3 | The first condition is to test if the phone is broken and the second condition is to test if the phone age is at least 3 years old. | 4 |
boolean needPhone = isBroken || phoneAge >= 3; | determines a boolean (T/F) based on what the user inputted or if the phoneAge value is greater than or equal to 3 | We need two conditions to determine if it is the time for a new phone. | 3 |
boolean needPhone = isBroken || phoneAge >= 3; | Conditions if a new phone is needed | We use the || operator (called or) to combine the two conditions. | 2 |
boolean needPhone = isBroken || phoneAge >= 3; | Conditions if a new phone is needed | The first condition is to test if the phone is broken and the second condition is to test if the phone age is at least 3 years old. | 2 |
boolean needPhone = isBroken || phoneAge >= 3; | Conditions if a new phone is needed | We need two conditions to determine if it is the time for a new phone. | 3 |
System.out.println(needPhone); | Shows whether it is necessary or not | This statement prints true/false depending on whether it is time to buy a new phone. | 3 |
System.out.println(needPhone); | Shows whether it is necessary or not | The printed value is followed by an end-of-line character in the end. | 1 |
System.out.println(needPhone); | outputs the boolean result of "needPhone" | This statement prints true/false depending on whether it is time to buy a new phone. | 4 |
System.out.println(needPhone); | outputs the boolean result of "needPhone" | The printed value is followed by an end-of-line character in the end. | 1 |
String fullName = "John Smith" | Stores the name | We define a string variable to hold the name. | 4 |
String firstInitial = fullName.substring(0, 1); | Retrieves the initial of the first name | We need to extract the first letter from the first name. | 4 |
String firstInitial = fullName.substring(0, 1); | Retrieves the initial of the first name | We do this by calling the substring(0,1) method. | 2 |
String lastInitial = fullName.substring(5, 6); | Retrieves the initial of the least name | We need to extract the first letter from the last name. | 4 |
String lastInitial = fullName.substring(5, 6); | Retrieves the initial of the least name | We do this by calling the substring(5,6) method. | 1 |
String initials = firstInitial + lastInitial; | Join the two initials | This statements concatenates the extracted initials and store the result in the string initials. | 4 |
System.out.println(initials); | Shows initials | This statement prints the initials to the default standard output stream. | 3 |
System.out.println(initials); | Shows initials | The printed value is followed by the end-of-line character at the end. | 1 |
int[] values = {5, 8, 4, 78, 95, 12, 1, 0, 6, 35, 46}; | Values to be analyzed | We define array values to hold the specified numbers. | 3 |
int[] values = {5, 8, 4, 78, 95, 12, 1, 0, 6, 35, 46}; | Values to be analyzed | We initialize the array by separating elements with a comma and enclosing the collection in braces { }. | 1 |
int maxValue = values[0]; | Variable that will store the maximum value | We need variable maxValue to store the maximum value of the array. | 4 |
int maxValue = values[0]; | Variable that will store the maximum value | We initialize this variable by the first value in the array because we initially assume that the first value is the maximum. | 2 |
for (int i = 1; i < values.length; i++) { | Loop start | We use a for loop to iterate over the remaining array indexes and search for the maximum value. | 2 |
for (int i = 1; i < values.length; i++) { | Loop start | We need the array indexes to start at 1 with every integer number up to but not including the array length. | 1 |
if (values[i] > maxValue) { | First condition | We need to compare the value at the index i of the array with the maximum value stored in variable maxValue. | 2 |
if (values[i] > maxValue) { | First condition | If the value at that index is larger than the maximum value, then we need to set the maximum value to the value of the element at index i. | 1 |
System.out.println("Maximum value: " + maxValue); | Prints the result | This statement prints the maximum value of the array to the default standard output stream. | 3 |
maxValue = values[i]; | Recovers the maximum value | This statement sets the maximum value to value of the element at index i of the array. | 2 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | Loop structure | To do this, we need to use a loop structure. | 4 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | Loop structure | We need to repeat the same process for each of the even positive integers that are less than or equal to 10. | 2 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | Loop structure | To do this, we initialize variable num to 2, loop until reaching 10 (inclusive), and increment num by 2 after each iteration of the loop. | 2 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | Loop structure | We use for loops instead of a while loop because we need to repeat the loop a certain number of times, and for loops are best-suited in cases like this when we know ahead of time the number of times that we need to repeat the loop. | 2 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | Loop structure | Here, we want the for loop to start counting from 2 (2 is the first positive even number) with every even integer number up to (including) 10. | 2 |
System.out.println(num + " squared = " + (num * num)); | Prints the result | The multiplication may also be performed directly in the println statement. | 2 |
System.out.println(num + " squared = " + (num * num)); | Prints the result | Note that we do not necessarily have to store the squared number in a variable. | 1 |
System.out.println(num + " squared = " + (num * num)); | Prints the result | To square each number in the sequence, we multiply it by itself using the multiplication (*) operator. | 1 |
System.out.println(num + " squared = " + (num * num)); | Prints the result | In each iteration of the loop, this statement prints the square number to the default standard output stream. | 2 |
Point1 point = new Point1(); | Stores the point | This statement creates a Point1 object using the new keyword and empty parentheses. | 2 |
Point1 point = new Point1(); | Stores the point | The variable point holds a reference to a Point1 object. | 1 |
point.setX(7); | Set the X axis | This statement invokes the method setX of the point to set its x-coordinate to 7. | 3 |
point.translate(11, 6); | Joins the x and y axis values | This statement invokes the method translate of the point. | 1 |
point.translate(11, 6); | Joins the x and y axis values | The second parameter specifies how much we want to shift the y-coordinate of the point. | 1 |
point.translate(11, 6); | Joins the x and y axis values | The translate method receives two parameters. | 1 |
point.translate(11, 6); | Joins the x and y axis values | The first parameter specifies how much we want to shift the x-coordinate of the point. | 1 |
System.out.println("The point's coordinates: (" + point.getX() + ", " + point.getY() + ")") ; | Prints the axes | Note that we do not necessarily have to store the returned value from each of these methods in a variable. | 1 |
System.out.println("The point's coordinates: (" + point.getX() + ", " + point.getY() + ")") ; | Prints the axes | We could use the returned value of them directly in the println statement. | 1 |
System.out.println("The point's coordinates: (" + point.getX() + ", " + point.getY() + ")") ; | Prints the axes | This statement prints the coordinates of the point to the default standard output stream. | 2 |
System.out.println("The point's coordinates: (" + point.getX() + ", " + point.getY() + ")") ; | Prints the axes | The printed text is followed by the end-of-line character at the end. | 1 |
System.out.println("The point's coordinates: (" + point.getX() + ", " + point.getY() + ")") ; | Prints the axes | To get the point's coordinates, we invoke the method getX and getY of the point. | 1 |
class Point1 { | Creates the Point1 class | We define the class Point1 to represent a point in the Euclidean plane. | 3 |
private int y; | Variable Y | Therefore, we need to declare an instance variable for the class to store the y-coordinate of the point. | 2 |
private int y; | Variable Y | We declare it as integer because we want to have integer coordinates for the point. | 1 |
private int y; | Variable Y | Note that an instance variable is a variable defined in a class, for which each instantiated object of the class has a separate copy, or instance. | 1 |
private int y; | Variable Y | Every object of the Point1 class will have its own y-coordinate. | 2 |
public void translate(int dx, int dy) { | Axles | This method shifts the coordinates by a specific delta-x and delta-y, which are passed as parameters. | 1 |
public void translate(int dx, int dy) { | Axles | We define this method as public to provide access to this method from outside of the class. | 1 |
public void translate(int dx, int dy) { | Axles | Also, we define its return type as void, as it does not return any value. | 1 |
public void translate(int dx, int dy) { | Axles | Note that both of the parameters are declared as integers because the point has integer coordinates. | 1 |
x += dx; | Changes the X axis | To shift the x-coordinate of the point, we need to add dx to the value of the x-coordinate of the point. | 2 |
public void setX(int newX) { | New X axis | Also, we define its return type as void, as it does not return any value. | 1 |
public void setX(int newX) { | New X axis | We define this method as public to provide access to this method from outside of the class. | 1 |
public void setX(int newX) { | New X axis | This method sets the current value of the x-coordinate of the point to the given value (newX) that is specified as the method's parameter. | 2 |
public void setX(int newX) { | New X axis | Note that the instance variable x is private; thus, it cannot be directly changed from outside the class. | 1 |
public void setX(int newX) { | New X axis | The parameter of the method is declared as integer because the x-coordinate of the point is an integer. | 1 |
public void setX(int newX) { | New X axis | It can be changed from outside the class only through this method. | 1 |
public int getX() { | Recovers the X axis | We define this method as public to provide access to this method from outside of the class. | 1 |
public int getX() { | Recovers the X axis | This method returns the x-coordinate of the point. | 3 |
public int getX() { | Recovers the X axis | Note that the instance variable x is private; thus, it cannot be directly accessed from outside the class. | 1 |
public int getX() { | Recovers the X axis | Also, we define its return type as int, as it returns the x-coordinate of the point which is an integer. | 1 |
public int getX() { | Recovers the X axis | It can be accessed from outside the class only through this getter method. | 1 |
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in); | Set input | To read the input value from the user, we need to define a Scanner object. | 2 |
Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in); | Set input | We need to read and process the value that the user enters. | 2 |
System.out.println("Enter an integer for seconds: "); | Display the message "Enter an integer for seconds:" | We prompt the user to enter the seconds. | 4 |
int seconds = scan.nextInt(); | Creates the variable seconds | We need to read the seconds that the user enters and store it in a variable. | 3 |
int seconds = scan.nextInt(); | Creates the variable seconds | We read the seconds by calling the nextInt() method because this input is an integer. | 2 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | This for loop will first assign the num variable to 2, execute what is in the body and then increment num by 2 (which guarantees that num is positive) each round until num reaches the value 10. | To do this, we need to use a loop structure. | 3 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | This for loop will first assign the num variable to 2, execute what is in the body and then increment num by 2 (which guarantees that num is positive) each round until num reaches the value 10. | We need to repeat the same process for each of the even positive integers that are less than or equal to 10. | 3 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | This for loop will first assign the num variable to 2, execute what is in the body and then increment num by 2 (which guarantees that num is positive) each round until num reaches the value 10. | To do this, we initialize variable num to 2, loop until reaching 10 (inclusive), and increment num by 2 after each iteration of the loop. | 4 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | This for loop will first assign the num variable to 2, execute what is in the body and then increment num by 2 (which guarantees that num is positive) each round until num reaches the value 10. | We use for loops instead of a while loop because we need to repeat the loop a certain number of times, and for loops are best-suited in cases like this when we know ahead of time the number of times that we need to repeat the loop. | 2 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | This for loop will first assign the num variable to 2, execute what is in the body and then increment num by 2 (which guarantees that num is positive) each round until num reaches the value 10. | Here, we want the for loop to start counting from 2 (2 is the first positive even number) with every even integer number up to (including) 10. | 4 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | Since num must be <= 10 to execute what code is in the body of the function, the code in the body will execute for num = 10 as well. | To do this, we need to use a loop structure. | 1 |
for (int num = 2; num <= 10; num += 2) { | Since num must be <= 10 to execute what code is in the body of the function, the code in the body will execute for num = 10 as well. | We need to repeat the same process for each of the even positive integers that are less than or equal to 10. | 2 |
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