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Copyright ? 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley Lecture 3 / * Copyright ? 2009 Pearson Education, Inc. Publishing as Pearson Addison-Wesley School of Computing Information Systems Lecture 3 KXO151 Programming Problem Solving Java Software Solutions Foundations of Program DesignSixth Edition by Lewis Loftus Chapter 2: Data and Expressions Data and Expressions Lets explore some other fundamental programming concepts Chapter 2 (Lectures 3,4, 5) focuses on: character strings primitive data the declaration and use of variables expressions and operator precedence data conversions accepting input from the user Java applets introduction to graphics Outline Character Strings Variables and Assignment Primitive Data Types Expressions Data Conversion Interactive Programs Graphics Applets Drawing Shapes Character Strings A string of characters can be represented as a string literal by putting double quotes around the text: Examples: This is a string literal. 123 Main Street X Every character string is an object in Java, defined by the String class Every string literal represents a String object The println Method In the Lincoln program from Chapter 1, we invoked the println method to print a character string The System.out object represents a destination (the monitor screen) to which we can send output System.out.println (Whatever you are, be a good one.); object method name information provided to the method (parameters) The print Method The System.out object provides another service as well The print method is similar to the println method, except that it does not advance to the next line Therefore anything printed after a print statement will appear on the same line See Countdown.java (Page 59) String Concatenation The string concatenation operator (+) is used to append one string to the end of another Peanut butter + and jelly It can also be used to append a number to a string A string literal cannot be broken across two lines in a pr