Java ☕ Printing

In the early days of computers, users didn't interact with the computer through a screen, as we do now. Instead, the computer would output information with a physical printer with paper.

Nowadays, we don't need to print to a physical printer. Instead, output is printed to a console on the computer. The console acts like a virtual printer and can print out whatever you tell it to. In addition to writing output, the user can type commands for the computer directly into the console. Because of this, the console is a fundamental and powerful way for programmers to interact with the computer.

The console in Eclipse displaying the output 'Hello World'

Printing in Java

will cause the computer to print the following to the console.

Hello World!