... directs the user to take a specific action. We use method print here rather than println so that the user’s input appears on the same line as the prompt. Recall from Section 2.2 that identifiers starting with capital letters typically represent class names. Class System is part of package java.lang.

2.5.4 Declaring a Variable to Store an Integer and Obtaining an Integer from the Keyboard

The variable declaration statement in line 12

int number1 = ...

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