• Inside the body of the paint method, we have another statement:

g.drawString("Welcome to programming!",25,25);

• drawString is a method for Graphic objects.
• The statement above, using the "." notation, can be read,

"apply the drawString method to Graphics object g with arguments "Welcome to programming!" , 25 , and 25 ."

• Another way of speaking of this statement that you may hear is:

"send the Graphics object g the drawString message with arguments "Welcome to programming!" , 25 , and 25 ."

• The drawString method instructs the computer to draw the string of characters between the quotation marks.
• The numeric parameters are the x and y coordinates of where to start drawing the string on the applet.
• Coordinates (0,0) are the upper lefthand part of the applet.
• NOTE: each single statement in Java ends with a semicolon ";"
• In your 1st laboratory exercise, you enter this program, compile, and execute it.
• Play with the 3 parameters of the drawString method: the string (contained within quotation marks) and the 2 numeric parameters.
• What do they do? What happens when you make the numeric parameters negative? Very large?
• What happens when you omit one of the semicolons? Try it.
• In addition to your 1st glance a the Java language, we have seen a couple of library objects, and their methods:

Applet:

paint(Graphics)

Graphics:

drawstring(String)