Does BlueJ not require a main() method? [closed]

BlueJ is a development environment which is a deliberately smaller and simpler interface than professional environments like NetBeans or Eclipse. This allows beginners to get started more quickly and hence doesnt force you to write the main() instead it does it for you in the background https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/scottm/cs307/handouts/BlueJProjectInstructions.html Where as Netbeans and Eclipse mandate that you … Read more

What does if __name__ == "__main__": do?

Short Answer It’s boilerplate code that protects users from accidentally invoking the script when they didn’t intend to. Here are some common problems when the guard is omitted from a script: If you import the guardless script in another script (e.g. import my_script_without_a_name_eq_main_guard), then the second script will trigger the first to run at import … Read more