Exercise : Practice indentation

Programs should be indented properly to make them easier to read:

• { brace → increase indent of following lines by one tab
• } brace → decrease indent of that line and following lines by one tab

Example:

public class Hello {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello, world!");
        System.out.println("How are you?");
    }
}

Make sure that your Neighbors program has good indentation.

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Exercise : Practice indentation, cont'd

Our Indenter Tool web page can fix a program's indentation.

In this exercise, we will use the Indenter Tool to fix the following program that has poor indentation. Download it and open it in jGRASP:

• Icky.java

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Exercise : Practice indentation, cont'd

• Go to the CSE 142 Labs page. Under Lab 1, click Indenter Tool.
• Copy/paste the Icky.java code into the Indenter's text box.
• Click Fix Indentation. (Indent by 3 spaces.)
  Paste the properly indented code in the box below.

public class Icky {
   public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.out.println("Well-indented programs");
      System.out.println("look much better.");
      System.out.println("Please fix me");
      System.out.println("so I look nicer");
   }
}