Computer Science 523
Advanced Programming

Summer 2014, The College of Saint Rose

Home     Syllabus     Schedule     Examples     Style Guide

OlderYoungerThanJava BlueJ Project

Click here to download a BlueJ project for OlderYoungerThanJava.

OlderYoungerThanJava Source Code

The Java source code for OlderYoungerThanJava is below. Click on a file name to download it.

OlderYoungerThanJava.java

/**
 * Class example demonstrating the if-else statement
 *
 * It prompts for a birth year, prints out what age that person will
 * turn this year, and then one of two messages, depending on whether
 * that person is older or younger than the Java programming language
 * 
 * Jim Teresco, The College of Saint Rose, CSC 202, Fall 2012
 * Updated for, The College of Saint Rose, CSC 523, Summer 2014
 *
 * $Id: OlderYoungerThanJava.java 2366 2014-05-20 02:33:22Z terescoj $
 */

import java.util.Scanner;

public class OlderYoungerThanJava
{
    public static void main(String args[]) {

        final int THIS_YEAR = 2014;
        final int JAVA_BIRTH_YEAR = 1995;
        
        Scanner kbd = new Scanner(System.in);
        
        System.out.print("What year were you born? ");
        int birthYear = kbd.nextInt();
        
        System.out.println("Hey, you turn " + (THIS_YEAR - birthYear) + " this year!");
        
        if (birthYear < JAVA_BIRTH_YEAR) {
            System.out.println("You are older than Java!");
        }
        else {
            System.out.println("You do not know a world without Java...");
        }
    }
}