Thread: New To Java

Could you show me where I went wrong with this program? It comes from a book and doesn't explain anything. Thanks.


class FirstVariable
{
public static void main ( String[] args );
{
String message = Initial value;
System.out.println("message");
message = Modified value;
System.out.println("message");
}
}

Hi SecTech,

It is a simple error, nice and easy to correct. You have your quotation marks in the wrong spots. When you assign a value to a string variable it needs to have the quotation marks. When you use a variable in something like a println method, you only reference the variable name.

String message = "Initial Value";
System.out.println(message);

Also there is no semicolon after the main method declaration.

Good luck! Learning Java is great fun.

In java String is a immutable object,,,So String object Created by enclosed with double Quote(" ") and Don't put Semi colon at the end of main() method

 
class FirstVariable
{
public static void main ( String[] args )
{
String message = "Initial value";                        //string object
System.out.println(message);
}
}

I hope it is useful

vasanthjayaraman, you have left the quotation marks in place from the op's code in your example. The variable message in the println statement. I'm sure you meant to remove them.