Whats wrong with this method?

Question

I'm new to java can someone please explain to me whats wrong with this method:

clas Hello {
public static void main (String[]arg) {
Document.write ("hello world") ; 
}}

Answer 1

1. You misspelled class.
2. Where is Document coming from?
3. The formatting is terrible.

Answer 2

This is the compiler output:

Hello.java:1: 'class' or 'interface' expected
clas Hello {
^
1 error

That means, that you should either type class or interface ( In your case it should be class )

Assuming you had an error while copy/pasting it here, the problem reported by the compiler is:

Hello.java:3: cannot find symbol
symbol  : variable Document
location: class Hello
        Document.write ("hello world") ; 
        ^
1 error

That means, the compiler doesn't know anything about a class named: Document that's what cannot find symbol means in this case.

Perhaps you want to write:

 System.out.println("Hello world");

Complete running program:

public class Hello {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Hello world");
    }
}

Answer 3

You probably meant this:

public class Hello {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("hello world");
    }
}