Printing to the Screen

Learn to Program, Third Edition — by Chris Pine (11 / 116)

👈 Chapter 1 Numbers | TOC | Integers and Floats 👉

Looking at the program, you can guess that the 1+2 handles the math part. In fact, you can simply write this:

​ puts 3

And you’ll end up with the same result: a 3 on your screen.

You may have guessed by now that the puts method writes onto the screen whatever comes after it; for example, the result of 1+2.

Now let’s talk about the two different kinds of numbers that we can use in our programs.

👈 Chapter 1 Numbers | TOC | Integers and Floats 👉

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