Intro to Java Programming 18 - printf

In which we discuss yet another way to print text to the screen, the printf method.

if you have any questions leave a comment below and i'll try to get back to you as soon as possible. if not, hopefully someone else can assist you.

[willmckee]

You saved me from having a B in Comp Science. We had to do these labs where you add the perimeter, sum, average, surface area, area of a circle, slope of a line and Fahrenheit to Celsius conversion. I didn't understand how to make the printf statements work, but now I do. Thanks a lot!

[dalalalghomlas]

%d is only for int, %f is for both float & double

[Mrsthebest]

LPparty...alrigth first thing is that you need to take the exam score = part out of that source code.
Now you declared the Variable Test as a double and assigned it the value 12.3343. Now you are using the System.out.printf method...it goes like this...first you state how you want it to be formatted...by using "%f" you put numbers in front of the f to say how many spaces you want before it is printed. So it would simply be System.out.printf("%f", Test); put the thing you want to print after

[Lucario]

But where the console. I heard that a console is suppose to pop up