Welcome to the Lecture

Series on

“Introduction to Programming
With Java”

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 Syllabus

• Structure of Java programs

• Input and output to screen with Java program
• Statements
• Conditional statements
• Loop constructs
• Arrays, character and string handling
• Functions (if time permits)

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 Books & References

1. Java 2: The Complete Reference

– Patrick Naughton, Herbert Schildt

2. Thinking in Java (http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/)

– Bruce Eckel

3. Richard G Baldwin’s “Introductory Java Programming

Tutorial” on: http://www.dickbaldwin.com/tocint.htm

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 Contents for Today’s Lecture

• Structure of Java programs

• Compiling and running the program
• Printing messages to the screen

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 Some Basics

Q. What is a program?
Ans. A sequence of instructions that a computer can interpret
and execute.

Q. Why Java and not Hindi / Marathi / English?

Ans. Since, so far, computer is not intelligent enough to
understand natural languages.

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 Structure of Java Programs

class class-name {
public static void main(String args[]) {
statement1;
statement2;
…
…
}
}

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 Example Program

“First.java”
class First {

public static void main(String args[]) {

System.out.println(“Hello World”);
}

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 Compiling & Running the Program

Compiling: is the process of translating source code written in

a particular programming language into computer-readable
machine code that can be executed.
$ javac First.java
This command will produce a file ‘First.class’, which is used
for running the program with the command ‘java’.

Running: is the process of executing program on a computer.

$ java First

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 About Printing on the Screen

1. System.out.println(“Hello World”); – outputs the string

“Hello World” followed by a new line on the screen.
2. System.out.print(“Hello World”); - outputs the string “Hello
World” on the screen. This string is not followed by a new
line.
3. Some Escape Sequence –
• \n – stands for new line character
• \t – stands for tab character

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 Some Tips About Programming

• Some common errors in the initial phase of learning

programming:
- Mismatch of parentheses
- Missing ‘;’ at the end of statement
- Case sensitivity

• The best way to learn programming is writing a lot of

programs on your own.

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 Some Assignments 
1. Write a program which prints the following information
about at least 5 persons:
NAME MAIL-ID EMPLOYEE-CODE PHONE
Eg. Umesh umesh@cse p03161 25764728
Salil salil@cse p03160 25764728
Each entry should be on a separate line.

2. Write a program that prints the following line on the screen

along with quotes.
“Can we print ‘\’ with System.out.println() statement?”

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 End

Thank you…

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