Thread: redundant code

I was marked off 2 points from my teacher because he said this part of my code was redundant. What could I have done to make it less redundant?

if (x < 30) {
     a=2;
     x++;
     System.out.println("Java is awesome! " + x);
} else {
     a = 2;
     System.out.println("Java is awesome! " + x);
}

Anytime you repeat lines of code, there's a possibility that there is redundancy (or you need to move repeated code into a method). You didn't give us much context, but I believe what you have is the same as:

        a = 2;
        if (x < 30)
        {
            x++;
        }
        System.out.println("Java is awesome! " + x);