Haha. I am looking at tutorials to learn Java for now and when I get a good understanding of Java I am moving to C++.

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Hey can you explain what this means to me. I don't understand this line and it doesn't explain it in the tutorial.

void printStates() {
System.out.println("cadence:"+cadence+" speed:"+speed+" gear:"+gear);

Also can you explain why the "" marks are there and what the + signs represent. Thanks.

Here's the fact of the matter:

Tutorials are essential to being able to program. You may consider yourself a programmer, but trust me, if you've never read a book, taken a class, watched a few video series, or whatever it is, you do not know how to program. So many people say that they can just "figure out" a language, that they can just look at it and understand: the fact of the matter is that technique does not work, and only leads people to believe in a false sense of ability.

Furthermore, it does matter what language you start with. The languages you start with and stick with will be the languages you know best, and each language can have different techniques or methods of accomplishing things, and will make all the difference when it comes down to methodology, which is probably one of the biggest parts of programming. Variables, statements, and "etc" are NOT major parts of programming, yes, they are in virtually every language, and yes, virtually all programs will make use of them, but knowing what a variable is and saying that you understand "programming" is like saying that you know what addition is and therefore you understand calculus.

That's a poorly written Java method.

First off, that won't work because you're missing a closing curly bracket.

The plus sign (+) is the addition operator, however in Java it also serves as the string concatenation operator (combine two strings of text). The quotation marks ("") wrap string literals. I'd imagine cadence, speed, and gear are all variables.