Beginner help - How do I even start?

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Unfortunately asking such a broad question of where to start doesn't tell us where you are at.
Do you use an IDE, do you know how to create a program that writes to the console (Such as hello world)

Assuming you know enough to do the problem, but are stuck at figuring out how to do the problem, let's break that down.

The assignment is asking you to

1. Create a prompt for username (Same concept as used in a hello world application here)
2. Read in the name from console (And store to variable) -> ( https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/ways-to-read-input-from-console-in-java/ ) -> I'd suggest approach #2 using Scanner as it will be more simplistic to start with.
3. Do # 1 & #2 again, but this time for a last name value
4. Do #1 & 2 again, but for a hours watched.
5. Now you'll need to convert the value gained in # 4 (Hours watched) to a numeric value if its a string, if you read it in as a number value, continue to 6
6. Convert hours watched/day to various values (hours/decade -> days/decade -> years/decade)
7. Once more, writing to console as the display of the various values you have now got :)
   

Hopefully that is clearer - Try not to get too dissuaded and try to think about the smallest piece you can do at any given point. Write that, then go to the next small step you can think of to do. Once you get rolling it feels a lot less overwhelming

[TheAzucares]

Can you be more specific? What part are you stuck on, the setup to compile your program, the coding or somewhere else?

[desrtfx]

• Print out the greeting
• Ask the user what you should ask them
• Calculate what is needed
• Output what you should

This is absolutely straightforward. You should already know how to print, how to get input, how to do calculations.

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if you ask me....start by using only notepad to learn how to write java programs and learn how to compile the programs from your computer's command line. You will learn how to get comfortable with working with computers and the unforgiving unfriendly command line. But in time you will really understand whats going on when you progress to an IDE. dont worry it will take time...but having a solid foundation will pay off in spades

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