/** This is going to be our very first Java program.
  * (Program 0)
  * Developed on August 27, 2018.
  * Comments are critical to programming, but there are no syntax rules.
  */

// single line comment
// This program will say Hello to the world.
public class Hello
{  // open curly brace means begin
 public static void main(String[]  args)
 {
  // here's the place where the work for main method goes
   // statements
   // display a message "Hello World" to the screen
   // we do this by calling a method from the Java API
   System.out.println("Hello World!");
   // a string in CS means text (ie a sequence of characters)
 }
} // end