what does this mean??? i'm new and i have no idea

[kindred crater]

Hi, i'm doing a lesson in Java for school.

I'm taking a codehs course and it keeps saying these things that I have no idea what it means.

Help would be appreciated 🙂

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[languid pond]

Needs imports. Also, is this class teaching inheritance without explaining imports? It might be a bit advanced if you’re just starting out. Might be worth going back and getting a solid standing with the fundamentals. A lot of courses are out there that let you do practice problems after teaching you something. One that I like is sololearn, but you’re limited in how many problems you can do without a subscription

[kindred crater]

what are imports

[kindred crater]

it just taught me booleans and if statements

Like, I was supposed to use booleans and logical statements to determine if something is true, then it prints it out

[languid pond]

I think you may have skipped some lessons

[kindred crater]

I haven't, and I dont know what you mean by imports

[dense osprey]

imports allow you to use some code that is located somewhere else for the benefit of your project. Some imports don't need libraries (code you download and add to your project) in java these imports are usually java.net.<whatever>

say somewhere else in your project you have a square root function sqrt(int x)
but when you're coding in your main class if you type sqrt(int x) you wont be able to access that function because your code doesn't know about it

you would need to import <path to the class that contains desired function>
<classname>.sqrt(int x)

[languid pond]

Got it. If you haven’t, I’d recommend a different course if possible, since it sounds like there’s a lot of the basics that this one isn’t teaching you

[kindred crater]

the course i'm taking was provided to me by a teacher, and it bsaically just teaches you things as you go

fore xampl;e, u learn printing

then smething like variables

then booleans

etc

it dosent show everyhting at once

[kindred crater]

yeah, so i have not touched base with that at all.

i was wondering if there was a way to solve it without using imports, just booleans and logical operators

and if statements if those are needed

[languid pond]

Yes.

Where did console program come from?

Did you code that?

[kindred crater]

no. it was written out for me alreayd.

basically they write all of the "class" and public run statements for you

u just gotta write the code that acutlaly functions

[languid pond]

I don’t think I can do much without giving you the answer since you haven’t been taught enough basics to answer this question.

Id recommend some supplemental training. Sololearn is a good free option.