Creating a Java Application and Applet - Java Programming: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques - page 83

Perform the following steps to enter code for the Date constructor to
construct an instance of the system date.

To Code a Call to a System Date Constructor

1. Click the TextPad coding window, immediately to the right of the main()
method's opening brace in line 15.
The insertion point displays to the right of the brace in line 15
(Figure 2-36).

main method
opening
brace

insertion
point

FIGURE 2-36

2. Press the ENTER key and then type line 16 as shown in Figure 2-33 on
page 79.
The Date constructor to construct a system date is displayed (Figure 2-37).
A line comment explains the code by noting that this is a Date constructor.

Date
constructor
code

line comment

FIGURE 2-37