Okay, good morning and welcome. We continue in the exciting study of the Book of Acts. We pray and then we'll get into our session for today. I just request someone from the class to please go ahead and lead us in a word of prayer. Shall we pray? Father, in the mighty name of Jesus. Then turn our coffee. Do you want to say thank you for this moment? Thank you for giving us opportunity to be in your presence. Thank you because we are faithful. Thank you for your lecturers. Thank you for lecturing our students. We see what they're doing in the name of Jesus. Lord, we commit this lecture to everyone. Father, uphold us and sustain us and let your spirit dwell in us. Give us all the strength of your word day by day in the name of Jesus. Father, we thank you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, brother. So, you know, so far we've seen a couple of things happening in the church of Jerusalem. We said that the first 10 years was a time when the church in Jerusalem became stronger. Once the baptism of the Holy Spirit was done, like from the Book of Acts chapter 2, the believers were now beginning to be added to the church. And we also saw how the disciples who were waiting for this baptism in the Holy Spirit became really firebrand Christians. And they went around sharing the gospel, moving in signs, wonders and miracles. And we saw how persecution also affected the church. But in the midst of these things, the church remained a strong and a very, very powerful unit. So now from Acts chapter 6, we see the governance of the church begin to change. We saw certain needs emerging in the church of Jerusalem and then, you know, the emergence of the volunteers. Thus far, all the primary responsibilities were those of the apostles. But now we have volunteers in the church, men of God who are enlisted in Acts chapter 6, who were those with good testimony and filled with the Holy Spirit, people of faith who start to serve in the church. And then we went on and we saw that in the period of persecution, somebody like Stephen, again, he has the same qualifications of the volunteers that I just stated. But beyond that, his conviction for his faith, his conviction to stand up for the Lord Jesus and to preach Jesus when he is cornered by, you know, several, several opposers. That's something very exemplary and something to really honor and praise. And Stephen gives us a very good example for man of faith. Unfortunately, we saw that Stephen was martyred and it was a brutal, you know, killing that he underwent. And in this whole scenario, we noticed that there was a name that was mentioned to us by Luke and that is Saul. We saw how Saul was the one who was seemingly leading this group of opposers who killed Stephen. Now we must also recognize that what happened to Stephen, probably that may have happened to others as well. We don't know. But then the situation was so serious and that's what Luke wants to bring to our attention. Now we went on to Acts chapter eight and again, there is a description of persecution and how Saul was leading that persecution without any mercy. He was not concerned about the gender of the person or, you know, whether they were, they were at home because it says he went, they even went to the homes and dragged people out. So literally without any mercy, people were being persecuted for their faith. But in such a time, we also see the spread of the gospel. We also see that people in the Church of Jerusalem, right now, Philip, who is a volunteer, we see him moving out of Jerusalem and going to a place called as Samaria, where he, not only does he preach the word but with signs, wonders and miracles. Now we saw that once people start to believe in Samaria, another important thing that takes place is the discipling of these believers. Because Peter and John from the Church of Jerusalem, they set out to come to Samaria so that they can help the believers. Now what is the help required for the believers? They need to be moved on to the next level or the next important thing, the next truth that must be taught to them. And so Peter and John come and they minister the baptism in the Holy Spirit. Now we know that when they laid hands to minister the baptism in the Holy Spirit, Simon the sorcerer, he observed something amazing. First of all, he had given his life to Christ. But then, you know, when he saw the infilling of the Holy Spirit and people probably, he noticed them moving in the gift of tongues. So he asked Peter and he said that, hey, can I have this gift for an amount of money? And Peter rebukes him and he says that your heart is not right. Repent before God. Let's hope that God forgives you. So that's where we actually stopped. So there are a lot of things going on. We will notice that in the next 10 years, the first initial years is about a decade and we've seen whatever transpired. We saw that the church has now grown to, you know, several thousand people. We have leaders in the church. We have volunteers in the church. Persecution is going on. But now from Acts chapter 8 to Acts chapter 30 is the period of the next 10 years or the next decade. Roughly, we can estimate it from AD 38 to AD 47. And what we will see in these next five chapters or so is the way the gospel is spreading in the surrounding region. So till Acts chapter 7, it was all about the church of Jerusalem. Now it's moving on to the neighboring places. We've already seen the name of Samaria in Acts chapter 8. And then, you know, we will see other names listed out later as well. So what can we expect, you know, the believers to do in these upcoming five chapters? We'll see that they go and they carry the revival fires. We know that what happened in the initial years of the church was nothing less than a revival.  But the beauty of what we are going to learn is we notice that the same DNA or in other words, the same kind of fervor for God, the same kind of desire for the power of God, the same kind of earnestness to preach the gospel, the same kind of interest to build the church, things like that, they carry that same fire. So it's nothing less than what was happening in the church of Jerusalem. And so that is an encouragement for us today because when we, you know, take the passion that we have and the, you know, that fire that we have experienced in God, what happens is you kind of ignite the same kind of fire wherever you go. So we see that in the book of Acts. And similarly, today we can expect that whatever we are receiving, whatever we are learning, whatever God is doing in our lives, that's something we can carry and we can give it out wherever the Lord needs us. And so we notice in the book of Acts that as a revival fire spread out, there were believing communities, there were communities that came alive with the truth of God, that came alive with the power of God. And that's what we expect today when we talk about church planting, that's what we want. The fire of revival moves from place to place and then you don't just have one minister who is carrying the revival fire, but you have an entire community that's carrying the revival fire. And that's how, you know, it's supposed to be. And that's something that we can dream about and say, God, you know, we want to see communities that are so passionate for you in our times and days as well. So what else are we going to see in these next five chapters?  So he was persecuting the followers of the Lord Jesus and that's as much as we learned about him. But as we go to chapter nine, there's going to be quite an elaborate description of how he encounters the presence of God and, you know, how Jesus speaks to him and how this man Saul, you know, we later on call him Paul, you know, both were his names, but then for some reason the other name was called later. So people know him by that name Paul, you know, once he has an encounter with God. So that's something that we learn about. And then eventually we'll see how Paul in association with the church of Jerusalem, you know, he is instrumental. Along with some of the other leaders to really build up a church called as the church of Antioch, Antioch of Syria. So we'll talk about that church and the speciality of that church. And then eventually, you know, we will see how by Acts chapter 13, God will specify that he wants Paul and Barnabas for a certain kind of a ministry, which obviously we know is the ministry of, you know, like a missionary kind of a role that God wants Paul to have and even Barnabas. And so in Acts chapter 13, God makes that very clear and then we will start to talk about the missionary journeys of Paul. So the encounter that Paul had with Jesus took place somewhere around AD 38. So that's a little bit about what we are going to see in the next five chapters. So let's go back in and begin to see what we have here in the passage. So Acts 8, we've already seen Christ being preached in Samaria, then the profession of the sorcerers faith. We've seen that and we've seen how Simon has something wrong in his heart and he's being rebuked for that. And now we will start to read about the life of Philip, who is another one of the volunteers and what exactly Philip does. I know we probably read a little bit already, but let's start again from Acts chapter 8 and verse 26. That's the place where we will begin. So I want to request somebody from our class to go ahead and read this portion. You can reach up 26 and go on till the end. You could just go on till the end. Then we'll see what we can learn from this. Acts chapter 8 verse 26. Now an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, Rise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is desert. So he rose and went and behold a man of Ethiopia, a knuck of great authority under the Candence, the queen of the Ethiopians, who had charge of all her treasury had come to Jerusalem to worship. He was returning and sitting in this chariot. He was reading Isaiah the prophet. Then a spirit said to Philip, go near and overtake this chariot. So Philip ran to him and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said, We understand what you're reading. And he said, How can I unless someone guides me? And he asked Philip to come up and sit with him. The place in the scripture which he read was this. He was led as a sheep to be slaughtered and as a lamb before his it's sure is silent. So he opened not its mouth. In his humiliation, his justice was taken away. And who will declare his generation for his life is taken from the earth? So the inner answered Philip and said, I ask you whom the prophet say this of himself or of some other man. Then Philip opened his mouth and begin and beginning at the scripture preached Jesus to him. Now as they went down the road, they came to some water and the inner said, See, here is water. What hinders me from being baptized? Then Philip said, If you believe with all your heart you may. And he said and he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. So he commanded the chariot to stand still and both Philip and the unit went down into the water and he baptized him. Now when they came up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord caught Philip away so that the index often no more. And he went on his way rejoicing. But Philip was found at Azodas and passing through. He preached in all the cities till he came to Caesarea. Okay, thank you Jatina. Thank you for that. So we are seeing here that from Samaria, Philip receives an instruction. We can say that similar to Stephen, Philip was also a man who was filled with the Holy Spirit, who was so sensitive to the work of the Holy Spirit. It's obviously the spirit of God who gave Stephen the wisdom to speak the way he did earlier. And in this case, in this entire chapter of chapter 8, we see that Philip is led by God so beautifully, so powerfully. He went to Samaria and as the mighty works of God were done, there was great joy in Samaria. We talked about that. So an entire region was impacted by the ministry of one man and that is such an encouragement for us. Now God leads him from that place to another place. So that again he can go and he can speak about salvation and the Lord Jesus to another person. But notice how Philip is being led to places where people seem to have their hearts yearning to hear the truth. So when he went to Samaria, it was so amazing and efficient, successful. Now being led by the Spirit, he comes to another region. So he receives the instruction, arise and go toward the south along the road which goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So a specific place is given to Philip. How does he recognize? We are told that Angel of the Lord spoke to Philip. So these are all ways by which the prophetic word is given to us or the communication of God comes to us. So right now it's an angel, right? So sometimes any angel can come and speak to us about what God wants us to do. Now we've seen this in the Bible, in the case of Mary. Gabriel came to Mary and spoke to her and told her what is going to happen. So Philip receives an instruction and that instruction is go to a certain place. Now what did Philip do? So when we receive an instruction from God, the right thing is to follow through. So he goes, we see in verse 27, so he arose and went and over there, there is a person and it says a man of Ethiopia. What was this man doing? Later on we find that he came to worship in Jerusalem. Maybe he was a proselytus, somebody who is given to other faiths but who decides to follow Judaism. So as a proselytus he had come to worship in Jerusalem. Now this Ethiopian, we are also told a little bit more about this person. But he was a Yonak of great authority. So for whatever reason, he's a Yonak but the important point to note here is he has great authority. Or in our present day terms he must have been a government official of very high rank and somehow God led Philip to a high ranking official. We are told that he was under the Candice, the queen of the Ethiopian. So Candice may be a term used to describe a certain form of royalty or certain form of position in the palace. So he was under the Iraqi or the king or the queen. And we notice that he also had charge of the treasury. So we can foresee that something strategic is going to happen. Now does Philip know, how much information did Philip have? We have so much information about this Ethiopian Yonak. But how much information do you think Philip had when God told him to go there? Anyone? Nothing. Absolutely, yeah nothing. Because what did God tell him? Just arise and go down from Jerusalem to Gaza. So he arose and went. So the point I want to make is that there are times in our lives where we want to do everything before we are willing to obey God. But the instruction of God or the message of God, it will come as per what God wants to communicate. So thank God for Philip because he did not keep questioning God and say God but who is going to be there? What am I supposed to do? He just whatever word he received, he knew, okay fine this is all God wants to tell me in this moment. The important thing that I have to do is to just act on it. And so you see in verse 27, so he arose and went. What an obedient man. And he has no clue that he is going to meet a person of great influence. This person has the access to the treasury of Ethiopia. So what was God's plan at this time to take the gospel to Africa?  It's huge. What God is planning in the spiritual is so amazing. But I don't know why God did not communicate that to Philip. He just said you get up, you go here. He said okay but obedience is what matters. And you know without his knowledge, Philip was instrumental to take the gospel to a person of influence who would then go on to Africa. And you know the gospel had the opportunity to spread there. So what do we see now? So this person was Philip ended up you know meeting this particular person and what was this person doing? This person after worship was returning sitting in a chariot and reading the prophet Isaiah. Now there is another instruction that Philip receives. So he goes down to Gaza and here's this man. But the other instruction is go near and overtake the chariot.  It's just a short sentence go overtake the chariot. Nothing more than that because we are reading Luke's account we know what's going on but Philip has no clue. First go to Gaza, second overtake the chariot. What would we do like if you're on the road and you're on your bike and the car says overtake that car and you're like what God am I hearing you right should I even do it? Okay but Philip, a man of obedience, it says next so Philip ran to him. He was just acting on the instructions of the Holy Spirit and this is how we need to be led in our lives. Here from God and when God speaks take that next step. We see Philip doing that in his ministry. So he ran up to this man and when he ran up to this man something was happening. He heard him reading the prophet Isaiah but he realized okay maybe the reason I'm here is to explain what this actually means and so he asked this person an Ethiopian you now do you understand what you're reading and the Ethiopian says how can I understand unless somebody guides me and then Philip goes ahead he sits down with him and he starts to read he describes the humiliation that the Messiah will go through and then he kind of brings this connection he says the prophet was actually talking about Jesus Christ and so he preaches the Lord Jesus to this Ethiopian Younup and in verse 35 it says Philip opened his mouth and beginning at the scripture preaches to him then what happens after that okay. We see in the next verse that the Younup is willing to be baptized just after he hears about Jesus. So we know that obviously he has accepted Christ isn't it when Philip preached he has accepted Christ and in the very next moment when they find some water he's willing to be baptized and you know Philip is likely the person who actually baptized it and you know we see that after that again the God continues to speak to him so in verse 38 we notice the baptism of this Younup takes place okay Philip is the one who has baptized the Younup and in verse 39 again one of the works of the Holy Spirit so what I'm trying to highlight here is the ministry of the Holy Spirit or the direction of the Holy Spirit and the way the Holy Spirit is working in Philip's life is something to for us to desire so notice what it says about verse 39 again Philip has to go okay but how does he go this time earlier we are not told how he actually went but we he went in the normal way but this time around we are told that the spirit of the Lord caught Philip away how would you like that you know God wanted you to go to a place to ministry and you were sitting in like like I'm sitting in Bible college and the next minute I'm not here right in front of the camera and I just go someplace to do the ministry or you know something like that happens to you but the early church lived in all these supernatural experiences and the Bible tells us that these things can't happen today okay but thank God for Philip who followed the leading of the Holy Spirit excuse me and so then what happens we see that he goes on and he preaches in all the cities still he came to Caesarea so what can you say about the type of ministry of Philip we have the five point ministry gifts right and is there any particular ministry gift that you can attribute to Philip yeah that's true supernatural ministry but in the five point ministry gifts we can say evangelist isn't it he just went from new place to new place and then he talks about Jesus so an evangelistic ministry but we still don't see him being called as an evangelist okay so he's just started out and Luke never terms him as the evangelist yet because he's just being led by the spirit of God so even this is an important learning for us that when we are serving God we really need to wait for a title it's all about obedience titles will come eventually when people see that God is working through our lives in a certain way people also will be able to tell oh there is this prophetic gift on the person or they are so apostolic or they are such a good teacher so eventually people will notice you may be termed with the title but serving God is not so much about titles and we see that in the life of Philip he was not worried about what his title was and Luke never says evangelist Philip we just see his ministry was obedient whatever God told him to do at that point in his life he kept doing it and he went on to the next thing so that's again something so beautiful that we can learn from Philip just be obedient do what God calls you to do and don't worry so much about the title the title will come when we fulfill the function so I'll pause here before we get into act chapter 9 but any thoughts or any comments from you maybe about the life of Philip so I believe it's very supernatural and sometimes I just wonder how it was and how it actually happened it's like some meditations that we do maybe fast forward with the stuffs that's how he goes to the next place and that's really awesome and I just feel like the surrender and the obedience that he has must be the ultimate reason behind it none of the things of this life is hindering him that's one thing I feel it's more focused on preaching the gospel and that's what I believe so because sometimes I mean there's a life that we need to carry on sometimes we focus on that but when we look into the early church the priority was the gospel in everything that they do and I'm just asking God let that be my priority too sometimes as we go through life that fire they have that desire they have I believe that should overwhelm in us so that we can do whatever God asks us to do so that's one thing I like and I also liked in verse 35 but somewhere it says he's beginning in that scripture he started preaching so that revelation is good Philip didn't have to go through something else to start about Jesus I wonder which verse it says yeah in verse 35 in 35 then Philip open his mouth beginning at this scripture it's like touching him right at the point I believe so what he was reading and that might be the work of the Holy Spirit behind everything even he was reading the right scripture but I still believe that sometimes we have to touch people right at where they are in need of right what because not everyone requires the gospel in the same way I believe that's why we have youth ministry children ministry because we have to touch them right at their point if we are if I look back into my life even I've heard gospel for all my life but then only when it touches right at the point where I am in that's when I got saved that made me believe more than Jesus so the revelation is also so big I believe that in the early church they know where to preach how to preach that's that's awesome they have a clear picture when they have to be a little more arrogant they are arrogant and when they have to be silent when they have to shut their mouth they are silent in that places and I think that's that's how maybe that's how Holy Spirit leases he tells us exactly what to do so yeah that's one thing that stood out for me when I when I saw that beginning in that scripture he started about Jesus to say yes thank you thank you for sharing your thoughts and Rosalind says Philip is very sensitive to the Holy Spirit true that also stands out for us she adds we too should have a relationship with the Holy Spirit in such a way that we don't miss the call of God and things that God wants to do through us to bless others keeping destruction away and out of our lives thank you okay sure Rosalind correct to be so sensitive and responsive to God is important for us to walk in what God wants us to do and as I pointed out earlier the instructions that God may give us they seem very small but in the kingdom of God some of those things can be so strategic like when the church is beginning to grow in the early you know the first century and Philip is just traveling here and there one with one sentence two sentences he is led to a man who will take the gospel to an entire continent and that's the beginning of the spread of the gospel in that particular continent of Africa so it is important as Rosalind is pointing out to just the obedient to God even if it's a small instruction because in God's perspective when we obey that small command it might make the difference to a continent full of people we don't know and so you know that is something to really think about and finally one more thing that I will quickly point out about Philip is both in Samaria and the Ethiopian you know it says rejoicing there was great joy in the land and then the Ethiopian you know went back rejoicing so when we are led by God in such a timely way he went to both these places and people were receptive they accepted the truth and what did that produce in the lives of the people they received the gospel rejoicing so the Ethiopian you know he seems so devout we don't know for how many years he was searching for the Messiah but that was the moment just that moment when Philip comes and says okay you know what are you reading do you understand what you are reading okay he sits down with it and he begins to explain but maybe the quest of an entire lifetime was met on that particular day but the result rejoicing in the lives of people when we take the gospel out and you know maybe another insight is see God wants us to take the gospel to everyone we obviously saw him earlier taking it out to the regular people in Samaria but now there is a person of influence so as we go ahead in the book of Acts we notice that every strata of society people in business you know people in the prison people men women so just talk about it every sector very intelligent people like you know Athens city of Athens so business people the city of Corinth was known for all Ephesus particularly you know was known for all their business activities but the gospel impacts everyone it doesn't matter what walk of life people come from but because we are created in the image of God and each one of us is in need of salvation the gospel is the type of gospel and effective in the life of every single human being that is also something that we notice okay so I'll just go back to the chat here Rosalind says like God told me to go to a certain place to do prayer work but I did not obey because of my laziness and fear but I learned it a hard way thank God for his mercy okay thank you for sharing Rosalind I know like even in our lives sometimes we just regret not having a listen to God but hopefully we'll become more sensitive to know his voice accurately and then act on it so any other comments before we jump to Acts chapter 9 alright so if we are through then we shall now start to talk about Apostle Paul eventually he'll be Apostle Paul but right now he is the persecutor Saul who was introduced to us and this is around 3880 and we will see what exactly happens to him on a road called as on the road to Damascus so let's begin to read from verse 1 here we could read till verse 9 please then Saul still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus so that if he found any who were of the way whether men or women he might bring them bound to Jerusalem as he journeyed he came near Damascus and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven then he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him Saul Saul why are you persecuting me and he said who are you Lord then the Lord said I am Jesus whom you are persecuting it is hard for you to kick against the goats so he trembling and astonished said Lord what do you want me to do then the Lord said to him arise and go into the city and you will be told what you must do and the men who journeyed with him stood speechless hearing a voice but seeing no one then Saul arose from the ground and when his eyes were open he saw no one but they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus and he was and he was three days without sight and neither ate nor drank Amen thank you Rosalind so we see the encounter that Saul had something that we can observe about his convictions is that he felt that whatever he was doing he was doing it right and so we see that he intentionally planned to persecute those who followed Jesus we are told that he went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus so meaning he officially was going place to place to persecute the believers and now what's happening he is going in search of if he found any who were of the way one more thing for us to notice is that the believers the collective name of the believers till now they are not really referred to as Christians you find their names as Christians we have seen such as believers, you know disciples and all that earlier but he who believes but now a collective talk to refer to those who are following Christ is the way so what was Saul doing he was trying to find people who are part of the way what is this way maybe you know they were talking about the way for salvation the way to live your life so it was a new manner of living life and a new faith that people found and so maybe that's why they called it the way or a manner of life and Paul was against the people who were part of the way again the scriptures say whether men or women showing how brutal he was that he might bring them bow to Jerusalem so he was on an agenda that is why he went to Damascus now what happens as he is going to Damascus he hears a voice with a sentence it says Saul Saul why are you persecuting me now we know that whenever we hear a word being repeated twice that is expressing deep emotion of some sort so God is just trying to say like Martha you are worried and troubled about many things even at that time Jesus used her name twice okay so because he was in his heart just wanting to convince her to put her trust in the Lord and even now Saul he looks at Saul and he is like Saul Saul with deep emotion why are you persecuting what does it say anyone why are you persecuting me okay that's another very important thing you remember when Stephen was martyred we saw Jesus stand up it says right and I told all of us stand up is like a symbol of honour Jesus we know he is seated at the right hand of the Father but standing up is a symbol of appreciating someone for their work or their labour so for the persecuted church what is God's heart you see the martyrs Stephen saw Christ stand up which means God honoured the martyr Jesus honoured the martyr and now again we see when who is being persecuted we saw the people of the way right the other ones were being persecuted but what is the voice from heaven saying what is Jesus saying to Saul Saul why are you persecuting me so that shows us how God feels about persecution we may think that God has forgotten God is not mindful I'm the only one who has to go through the kind of persecution we go through maybe somebody says something maximum right about us and we don't like it oh look at you you are such a holy Joe but think about people in the book of Acts literally physically they are being hurt and they are being bound taken into prisons but in the midst of all that one thing that we can know is when we experience the pain of persecution who feels it Jesus feels it that's why he's telling Saul you know what you're not persecuting these people you are persecuting me why are you persecuting me wow it's like a parent standing up for their kids isn't it you feel that anger behind that statement where deep emotion God from heaven is speaking to Paul Saul and saying Saul Saul why are you persecuting me okay so let's stop here we'll take a 10 minute break and we'll come back so much more to learn about Paul's encounter okay see you all in 10 minutes thank you


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This is what I'm going to call my Honest thoughts my my review as it were of Hyrule Warriors age of calamity. I Am warning you right now That this is not one of those spoiler-free reviews. This isn't even one of those reviews That's gonna really probably tell you if you should buy the game or not. I mean, I'll get into that in a moment But there's going to be a lot of talk about the entire story of Hyrule Warriors age of calamity from start to finish If that's not for you. No, don't watch this video now I'm sure you might have already clicked and you're upset by the title. Hey, I don't care Just gonna be honest. I'm someone who seeks out these conversations. 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There is not a single Dynasty Warriors One-piece Warriors Hyrule Warriors Fire Emblem Warriors, there is not a single Warriors game that is better than this game There are games that run better. Yes, there are severe frame rate drops in this game severe Single digits sometimes almost one frame or less because there will be times in certain battle situations That it'll be like you are watching a stop motion video I'm not going to sit here and sugarcoat it that happens granted It happens in almost all warrior games And if you've ever played a mooso game, you should be expecting it But I do want to throw out there yet There are other mooso games that performance wise are better Hyrule Warriors defender of addition performs better than this game Hyrule Warriors Legends on the 3ds on the new Nintendo 3ds in particular performs better when it comes to frame rate But frame rate is not everything we have talked about in the past that great frame rate and great resolution make games better fact Great resolution and great frame rate do not make good games. You can have a 4k 120 FPS game released right now on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X or PC But just it being 4k and 120 FPS doesn't actually make it a good game So having crappy frame rate does not also make something a bad game So yes, there's a lot of frame rate issues, but that doesn't make this a bad game It is still the best Warriors game to date from the variety of enemies to the variety to how they How they space out the use of some of the bigger enemies like hynoxes and linals And and the new enemies that get introduced into the fray There is a lot to like about the enemy variety in this game But what really stands out if you just want to talk about some non-spoiler territory stuff is the well the Characters, okay the characters and how they how they have combat in the game. The thing is there is Every let me put it this way I've played a ton of Musou games from Dynasty Warriors all the way through Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity and the thing is a lot of times there's a lot of repetitiveness with the characters Characters don't feel different enough There are differences, but they never really feel different enough There's a lot of sameness in how the characters play and yes You're still just whacking through hordes and hordes of enemies But there is a ton of variety whether it's from Zelda and Link or or even Impa Which again these are all characters you can play in the demo or if you're going all the way up to Hetsu or Teba or Riju. I mean these characters are extremely varied all four of the champions Well, I guess fives and links also a champion control completely differently Yes, the basic controls are the same is still mostly y and x y and x occasional z ours thrown in as well So it's like a three-button combination of attacks, but there's a lot of variety in those attacks There's also the fact that while every character has the ability to use Your Sheikah Slate abilities like in Breath of the Wild all of them work Functionally a little bit different. So everyone has the ability to freeze Magnesis Freeze enemies in place or you know use things like the bombs But all of these abilities save like the freezing enemies in place thing Work fundamentally differently with each character. So there's a lot of little nuances You need to learn with how these work and Understandably they're most powerful with Princess Zelda She is the most powerful of these abilities because her base attacks aren't necessarily as powerful as some other Characters because she's not supposed to be amazing at combat But she does hold her own just fine by the way if you're wondering about that Zelda is you can literally play her as like your lead Character for much of the game if you would like so yeah, there's that you get to choose which characters you want to use in most missions There's only very specific story based missions where you have to use certain characters like link There's sometimes when link is not optional So the thing is I fundamentally love this link himself has a varied move set Depending on the typo weapon you're using whether it's a one-hander whether it's a two-hander whether it's a spear These all provide different use cases and different weapon types They even change your zr ability like with a one-hander you use a bow But you don't have a bow with your zr ability with a two-handed weapon So there's just a lot of different Variety of of gameplay I guess in this game in comparison to every other Musou game I've ever played including the last Hyrule Warriors Which had a case of feeling a bit same Z with some of the characters. That's not the case this time around They did a fantastic job adding variety to the combat and variety to the characters and how you approach combat in this game And yeah for that reason alone. It's the greatest Warriors game ever, but now we got to get into the story So here's the thing Nintendo wrote the story for this game Nintendo said this is the only game where we will be Experiencing what happened a hundred years before in Breath of the Wild and The big thing about this story Because this is why a lot of people are picking up this game is the story right because it's supposed to be a canon story It's supposed to be a prequel of sorts, right? It's the only game. It's ever gonna release that happens during the actual great calamity well the story is Let's just say it retcons all of Breath of the Wild entirely It's like Breath of the Wild didn't even happen so It's interesting because at the very beginning of the game and you saw this in the demo You know, you have that scene where that that were that uh that little mini guardian comes to life And then travels through time and the moment you see the travel through time aspect You're like oh boy last time we had time travel That was Ocarina of time and when we had that happen there were split timelines like what's going on here's time travel so You see that they have traveled back through time and end up partnering up with with Zelda and Link and Impa and I The thing is the story unfolds for a for a huge chunk of the game I would say about half of the game the story unfolds Exactly like Breath of the Wild describes it right, you know You go to each territory and you discover a person there That's going to become the the champion and and running one of the Divine Beast It's gonna help you to stop calamity Ganon You're on this journey with Zelda with extra cutscenes that we didn't get in the original game showing her personal struggles with her Inability to access the full power of the Triforce so she can do her part to stop calamity Ganon We see Link's rise to becoming a champion Whereas in Breath of the Wild he was mostly a champion in all of those memories We now get to fill in the gaps of all the things that happened to him becoming a champion We get to see more about the King of Hyrule in King Rhone like dude. He is Kind of hardened man. He's kind of cruel in some ways But he's hardened by certain events and certain things he's trying to prevent and trying to get Zelda to do right We get to see a little bit about Zelda's mother We never get to hear about the mother of Zelda but in this game we do and well We don't actually see her the game has one particular scene where it teases like you're just about to see Zelda's mother But then it pulls away We find out that Zelda's love for technology in her curiosity around it came from her mother And there is the fact that that little egg guardian. Hey, she built that you find that out late in the game She made that as a child and she forgot because Her dad the king took it away thinking it was ruining her focus on trying to find a way to unlock her powers So she when when when the thing travels back in time to meet with Lincoln's Oh the doesn't really remember making it because she did it when she was a little girl So it's it's crazy Seeing that come full circle But for a majority of the first half of the game everything unfolds as you expected to right There's nothing too shocking. Okay.  Oh, no, Calamity Ganon does his things He makes his blights the the the champions are all stuck and trapped inside there They're now Calamity Ganon controlled You know divine beast and Link and Zelda are facing off Against Calamity Ganon or at least running from Hyrule Castle in a way as the king supposedly is killed Zelda try you know the king saves them and then you know supposedly the king is killed the king doesn't isn't actually killed but We'll find that out in a bit, but they're running away and here you are thinking here's the scene. It's coming It's coming right here. We go. This is exactly the breath of the wild here come all of the guardians There links not gonna be you know links gonna do what he can to fight off a One or two of them But he's gonna get massively injured and then Zelda is gonna step up to protect link and here we go Enter the events of breath of the wild and any sort of extra endings because again We knew that there were some interesting endings to this game Beforehand, maybe they come later. Maybe they come a few hundred percent the content Maybe it's an alternate ending right the whole ending that retcons the series Maybe it's an alternate ending and we start off with the ending of breath up So like I was like oh cool We're gonna get the ending that leads to breath of the wild and then when you do extra beyond that ending That's when you kind of retcon things and create a second timeline nope Right when you think it's going to happen it doesn't sell the cries the the Guardian shoots something up into the sky the baby guardian that that Zelda created shoots something up into the sky that basically brings back the new leaders the Nutteba, Riju, etc brings back the new leaders of those Those tribes from breath of the wild our current day breath of the wild back in time to help Save Ravalli, Urbosa and all that and ultimately they actually fail at it But what they do is they buy enough time For a link to show up and save the day and then link defeats the blights in present day Hyrule as it exists before breath of the wild So essentially everything gets reckoned Zelda still hasn't discovered her powers yet She goes on when they're on the run and they're at like a call of fortress Zelda is all like yeah Follow me we're going to dominate and like I have unlocked my powers now and it's just it's crazy, right? And it leads into a final confrontation now this entire time the story is going on You know something's up because there's like this seer right there's this magic man who thinks he can control calamity Ganon to an extent Turns out in the end. He can't control calamity Ganon. What a shocker couldn't see that one coming That was one of the biggest things that like you just knew was coming the whole time And even the Yiga clan ends up joining your forces because the Yiga clan was originally helping this seer But then decides yeah, no, this isn't good. We can't let calamity Ganon come back So everyone unites at the end. You have you have the you have all four champions link impa Zelda Robbie Pura you have you have the Teba and Rizu and the rest of the game from breath of the wild there as well They all team up to ultimately defeat not only this seer, but calamity Ganon itself Calamity Ganon is much more fierce in this game than he ever was in breath of the wild You could definitely tell breath of the wild calamity Ganon If this is to be considered cannon, which obviously breath of the lads of cannon game We get to see basically the full might of calamity Ganon in this game And I'm going to tell you guys right now the final confrontation in Hyrule Warriors Age of Calamity regardless of your difficulty mode from easy all the way up to the hardest difficulty is Way Harder than the final confrontation's I'm going to use shuns because is that last part with beast Ganon really a confrontation? It's so easy with Ganon or calamity Ganon In breath of the wild makes it look like a joke The battle against this calamity Ganon is much more intense. This calamity Ganon is much powerful like So much more powerful than he ever was in breath of the wild this is like the full might of calamity Ganon and You face off against it and a combination of obviously link and Zelda and the rest get it done So you end up sealing away the darkness in the end Hyrule has peace restored it It ends up not super destroyed even though Hyrule Castle as is destroyed the whole world isn't super destroyed and Everything's going good. And then if you 100% the game basically it's not really 100% There's this a long quest line after the end of the normal of the normal game That you can do to unlock the ability to play as the little guardian as its own It's okay, and I can't remember the name of the guy. I think it's sort of the tea It's just a really random names all the throws out there from what I can tell when she was a kid You get there's this long quest you can go to unlock the guardian and Unlocking the guardians so not necessarily 100% in the game, but it's it's pretty close to 100% in the game Unlocks the guardian and that unlocks the quote-unquote secret ending Which is basically just a continuation of the of the ending already given to you after you be calamity Ganon Where everyone you know the tabba region the rest get get sent back in time or Where they go back to Breath of the Wild which never happened so it's weird This game In the secret ending there is there really isn't much additional information You just get to see some stuff that happens after calamity Ganon is defeated Nothing that I find to be too like I was hoping there might be a hint at like oh, this is an alternate ending, but Here's the thing Age of Calamity is not the backstory of Breath of the Wild That's what you find out this story written by Nintendo Because it was supposed to be the back story Breath of the Wild Because it was supposed to be the back story Breath of the Wild is not actually the back story of Breath of the Wild That's the crazy thing. It's not the backstory What So what does this mean? Well, there's really two things This game is not canon. That's chief thing number one. Maybe this game is not canon It's just a spin-off Nintendo even though they wrote the story Treated it as a spin-off and despite them teasing things that basically you said it was a prequel in canon It's not and so it doesn't matter the game's irrelevant. It's just like the other Hyrule Warriors game It's it's your own unique story that just takes place in this certain world of Zelda and it means nothing or And this is probably the more likely scenario the timeline has split again And some of the things that happened in this game will be referenced in Breath of the Wild 2 now Breath of the Wild 2 we know factually follows up Breath of the Wild so This is happening at a time when we're Breath of the Wild happened and maybe Zelda never cried on the little guardian There didn't bring the people back and then you know, whatever like that's clearly where the split occurs is when Zelda cries and the Tier hits that guardian Maybe That's you know where the split occurs that in my opinion, but here's the thing This is a really good story, I like this story. It's just I Don't like the Zelda getting complicated again, and maybe that's just me But I didn't like this timeline split at Ocarina of Time I hated it I hated that timeline split and I hated it even more when Nintendo just made up a completely old link died So that's a new timeline like I Didn't like the time when I don't like things getting overly complex, but here we go Nintendo's at it again Assuming that this game is still considered canon and we'll know he aged you a new will answer questions about it eventually And if it's part of the timeline or not when Breath of the Wild 2 coverage starts to happen People will clearly ask him what age of calamity and he will let us know if it's part of the timeline or not So we we should have to wait long. We should know within a year if this game is part of the timeline if it is Then they have created another split timeline situation And they have reintroduced time travel into the series So now we need to think about What this is going to mean for Zelda moving forward Clearly Breath of the Wild 2 is going to be following up the events of the original Breath of the Wild But does the ending of this game open up another branch that they could start making Zelda games in too If they don't want to keep following down the Breath of the Wild line See what was so refreshing to me about Breath of the Wild is it was so far in the future And so clearly a dragon break style game where it brought all the timelines together again And they were kind of rebooting the franchise immediately upon rebooting the franchise. They split the timeline again I I'm just not a fan of this approach. I I guess I'm I'm a more of a fan of linear Story in so much that it makes a lot more sense and we're not debating which timeline games go into Um But we're they just kind of ensure that's going to keep happening if this game is canon again Ajiya no more will confirm at some point if this game is part of the timeline or not, but yeah, I'm My feeling at the end of Age of Calamity is both relief because I finally beat it Um Looking back on me playing it.  I played of it the story despite knowing You know what was going to happen because of the leaks before the game came out was still enthralling throughout I still found myself like literally not breathing during certain cut scenes when zelda was speaking specifically like There was moments watching the combat with the champions that I thought for a brief second We were about to see him die, but they didn't there was a lot of um animosity and excitement and My heart going a million miles an hour during the story and all the gameplay So I love this game This is probably my favorite video game in 2020 and that's seen a lot because there's so many great games but I also have a bias for zelda, so Here's the thing I'm still slightly Disappointed that there wasn't An ending they could have had this split ending happen and still show us the ending of breath of the ending that leads the breath of the wild Instead they either retconned it or Are we going to find out like my thing is in breath of the wild too in the sequel Are we going to find out that it's not that breath of the wild itself never happened? Are we going to find out that that's an alternate part of zelda history that was retconned with This and that they something some crazy time-traveling crap happens in breath of the wild too that changes it and makes breath of the wild not occur like There's so many possibilities here and maybe this was intentional Gotta remember aji anumu told us that this was the only game that was going to show us the events that happened before breath of the wild nintendo wrote the story I wonder if they are trying to set us up for breath of the wild too Doing something insane That makes it so breath of the wild itself never occurred I don't know I'm just throwing that out there like when these guys time travel back to the past To help the champions Does that actually occur in breath of the wild too where they end up time traveling back? And if it happens then why does it happen? Does something happen in breath of the wild too where they need to go back to the past and change what happened? I'm very very curious about this Is what happened in this game going to be explained in breath of the wild too that they needed to go change the past because of something else Again this game could be setting up a lot So if you're a zelda fan love breath of the wild absolutely play it if you've never played breath of the wild Should you play this game before you play breath of the wild? Sure. You can it is a prequel But i'm gonna tell you right now the backdrop of breath of the wild and the cutscenes aren't going to make sense to you Because this game is going to give you a completely different backstory that doesn't happen in breath of the wild As far as we're aware Anyways, you guys let me know what you think about all this down in the comments below. This is my review I honestly think that this is a really good game. This might be the best game on switch this year Animal crossing new horizons Is going to sell better It's going to be more popular. It's going to have more appeal Muso games and the kind of comment they do don't have the same sort of appeal Honestly, this is the best game on switch in 2020 So you should you should absolutely play it.  So anyways, I'm defender of a chance from the tender prime Let me know what you think about breath of the wild And obviously age of calamity hyrule warriors down in the console Let's have an in-depth conversation about this story about every aspect of this game because hey This is not some spoiler free video folks This is my review of hyrule warriors age of calamity. I'll catch you guys in the next video


Welcome to Intro to Java with an emphasis on AP Computer Science A. Today's topic is Strings, and I am Tokyo EdTech. Let's take a look at what we're going to look at today. As mentioned, Strings, we're going to learn what is a string, and string is textual information. We're going to look at string concatenation, which is combining strings, and we've seen a little bit of this before in this series. We're going to look at five string methods. These are the five that the AP emphasizes, but there are plenty more. I'll show you a little bit about those as well. And the five are the length method, substring, index of equals, and compare to. And just as an aside, I want to talk a little bit about objects and collections. This is the first time we're seeing these, for the most part. But they are important concepts that you will see throughout this course. Let's go ahead and get started. So as I mentioned, a string is a, basically it's a data type, and it is textual information. Previously, we looked at data types such as int. So int age equals one. We did a bunch of different things. If you haven't seen that video, please go back, watch it, come back. So this time we're looking at strings. So let's go ahead and declare a string or we might hear it called instantiating. So name equals quote, Tokyo EdTech. So what I've done here is I have created a string. And notice I called the class strings. Don't call it string because that'll cause problems. But we can call it strings because it's different to this. We have our public static void main method, and of course our closing. So I have just created a string. I've declared it or instantiate it, whatever you want to call it. And I can go ahead and print this. I can go system.out.println, say name, file that, execute it. And you'll see here, go edtech. Okay, pretty cool. So I can go ahead and make a few more. So I can do string, say favorite movie. Casablanca. I haven't seen it. Stop what we're doing right now and go and watch it. And we can do something like, oh, what in the day in Japanese, for example. That is sui gobi. That or if I'm able to type in Japanese on this computer, but I did copy and paste it earlier, I could do that. So I can go ahead and combine these strings. I can go ahead and say string. Let's go ahead and cat nation. And cat nation is just a fancy term for combining. So I can say string, I'll say introduction. I'll say, hello, plus me, let's quote. Today, yes. Actually, it's Thursday, but don't tell anybody. And we'll go ahead and put web net. Spell it. System.out.println. Let's see if I did that right. So far so good. Let's run it. Hello, I'm Tokyo edtech. My favorite movie is Casablanca. And today is sui gobi. You know, as I mentioned, it is Thursday. I think it might be Wednesday somewhere in the world. So I think it's still early. So basically, we can create strings and we can combine them using the plus operator. And we can run with our other apps. So one thing to take note of here, notice how string is capitalized. So if you remember with int, it was lowercase. You know, it's how it kind of changed colors here in genie. Now, depending on your editor, it might change colors. So one, for example, so it is capitalized because it's capitalized. This tells us that strings are objects. They are not the primitive types that we learned in the previous units. They are objects. I'll talk a little bit more about that as we go through. So with our string objects, we have something called methods. And these are things that I think of them as abilities, things that those objects can do. So there are five here listed that we're going to go through. So let's go ahead and do length. Okay, so I'm going to go ahead and make a new string and I'm going to call it favorite song. And my favorite song is pictures of you is by the band, the cures. If you haven't heard that yet, I would probably stop what you're doing on YouTube and listen to that. So the length method, length method, unsurprisingly, returns, that's an important concept, is it returns the length of that string. And by length, I mean the number of letters. You know, spaces are considered letters, so the number of characters that makes a little more sense to you. So if I could do this, now it's not going to do anything, but you'll say favorite song.length. So I'm going to go ahead and compile that. I'm going to run it. You can see how nothing happened here. We didn't get an error, which is a good thing. But we didn't actually see the value, the length of pictures of you. And that is why I would say it returns the value. So we return the value, but it didn't go anywhere. So I could do something like this. I could do int length equals favorite song.length. I could do system.out.println. I could say favorite song plus quote as quote plus length plus quote space letters. Oh, I'll say characters, it's more accurate, characters. So again, I'm doing a little string concatenation. I'm using an int. I'm using a string. I'm going to go ahead and compile that. Let's see it says pictures of you has 15 characters. So let's see if that's accurate. So one, two, three, four, five, seven, nine, the space is nine, 12, 13, 15. So it's accurate. Now, just as a side note, I didn't have to do this. I could have taken this and put it directly here. Do it however you like. It's probably a good habit to get into and know how you can do both of them. So as I mentioned, it returns the length. So what happens in your head? You think of, okay, when it gets to here calculates the number of characters and this is transformed. That then becomes 15. And so then it prints out. So length is pretty straightforward. There's not a lot. I can tell you about that. But this has actually come in very, very handy in future units to make sure you understand that length is the number of characters. Now substrate is kind of an interesting one. It kind of tells you what it is sub means like part or under and string is is a string. So we know what that is. So what we can do is some string. Let's us take a piece of that string. Let's cut out pieces of the string. So I'm going to go ahead and try this. I'm going to say string, say word forward, favorite song not substring 0 comma. I'm going to say system dot out dot print L N word. And let's see what we get here to compile that. And it gives us pictures. Let me explain how we got pictures out of zero and eight. So earlier we said there are 15 characters, but we need to be able to refer to each of these characters individually. Now this is the first case of where we're seeing what I would refer to as a collection. You can think of this as a collection of characters. We've got a P and I, we've got a C, we've got a T, we've got a U, we've got an R, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. So a string is really just a combination. It's a set, an ordered set of characters. And remember if you remember from the previous unit, we do have that car or char type, whatever they call it. And that's what this is actually made of. So what we can do here is we can pull out, that's the expression I usually use, is we can pull out parts of the string because we kind of slice it up. So this zero refers to this character. It's a little confusing. Human beings, we count from one. So you want to think this is one. And the way the computer thinks this is zero. We've got zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and then eight is the space. So it's a little unclear here. So let me go ahead and get rid of the spaces and show you something. Compiled, run. Notice I still got pictures. I didn't get the O. Again, let me count through that for you. So zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So substrate, it includes the zero. It does not include the eight character eight. So it includes this, does not include this. This is called inclusive, and this is called exclusive. So it's going to put the spaces back in. So we can pull out different parts of the string. So I can also do something like this. I can do string, song title, push, other cure song. So if I wanted to print P by itself, U by itself, S by itself, H by itself, I would do something like this. System.out.ln, say song title.substring. And remember this is zero. I want zero by itself. I want P by itself. So it's zero comma one because we don't include that. And go ahead and just copy and paste. So zero, one, one, two, three, sorry, two, three, four. Pilots. I always recommend like when you do copying and pasting that you always test it because it makes a mistake. So you can see here, we print it out from push, zero, one, so that was zero and one, but the one is not included. And we print it out one and two, two is not included. Three and four, four is not included. And zero, two, sorry, zero, two and three, I've had zero and one is not included, one and two is not included, two and three is not included, three and there is no four. So that's okay, we can go over. Just gotta be careful. If your numbers are wrong, if you try four and five, there is no four, zero, one, two, three, four. There is none. If you compile it, get an error. It compiles, you get all these weird things. You'll see string index out of bounds exception. So four and five is four is too big. There is no, or again, you'll be doing a lot of this if you take my, it's really important to be able to do that. Okay, so that is the substring method. Oh, just a quick thing. Actually, no, we did that, so zero and eight, so I know we did. So the other thing is, notice how I have a starting index and an ending index like plus one. I can also do the following. I could do system.out.println, say favorite song.substring. Now, in this case, I'm only going to put one number in. So let's say I wanted to print u. I can do zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve. So why is that index twelve? Now, I could put twelve and fifteen because they're the length is fifteen. But if I do this, it will start here and it will go all the way to the end. So if there's a hundred characters, a thousand characters, it doesn't matter. If there's only one number, it goes all the way to the end. Go ahead and compile that and run it. You'll see pictures and it started at x12, it went all the way. I changed that to eleven. File that, run it. You'll see that'd be a little extra space because the space is at next up, index of. Index of is a very useful method and what this does is it tells us the index of the matching. So for example, now we still have our favorite song up here, just pictures. So what I can do is I can say int index equals favorite song dot index of. I can also go ahead and do of. So what it does is it looks in the string that looks for of. In this case, does of exist? Yes, it does. So zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. The index of o is nine. So it should return nine. System.out.println index is us index, let's quote period. Let's compile it and we'll see the, pretty cool. Now let's go ahead and try and look for something that doesn't exist. Your fan, you know why I choose that. Compile it. Now what do you think it's going to return? Now we can see a lease is not in this song title. So what does it return in that case? And you can see here. So just as a reminder, let's do pictures. And I can do single letters doesn't matter, but I could do, I could do p. And the index of p, of course, is going to be zero. So if the index exists, if the substring exists, it's going to be from zero and higher. If it doesn't exist, it returns negative one. So that's how we can know, does this character exist in there? So let's say, for example, I could do something like this, I can say string vowels. Equals, A, E, I, O, U, and E, I, O, U, because capitals in our case are different to the computer. And I could say system.out.println, vowels.index of, say A. And I can say system.system.out.println, vowels.index of. We'll learn how to do this more of this later, X. So what is the index of A, and what is the index of X? So I missed A. I do that all the time. Okay, so you can see the index of A is five, then the index of X is in a one, zero to five. So using this method, we can tell whether or not something is a member or is a part of another group of something, another collection. Again, we'll be using that quite a lot in the future. So just something to note for future reference. Alrighty, now. Equals, A.Equals. I don't think I mentioned this previously, but let's say int X equals five, let's say int Y equals five. New system.out.println, X equals Y. I'm going to compile that. I'm going to run it, and you'll see where it comes up with true. And this is, we'll talk a lot more about this next unit, which is conditionals. So what this tells us, what this checks, is X equal to Y? And in this case, of course, it is because five is the same. Five. Let's try 10 and see what happens here. Now it returns false. So again, remember int is a primitive type. So with these primitive types, we're going to use equals equal. However, as I mentioned previously, strings are objects. So we're not going to use two equal signs. We're going to use the dot equals method. And no, there are cases where we do use two equal signs, but their results are not what you'd expect. We'll learn more about that later. So let's go ahead and try this. So string, let's say correct password. 1138, that's not my real password. I don't try it. Copy that. And we'll say input password. And then to compare them. So I can go ahead and make a Boolean from the last unit. So is correct. Say is correct password. Not equals input password. So does THX 1138 equal THX 1138? Of course, I think the answer is correct. So it is the same. So system.out.println. We'll say it's correct. And I should go ahead. All right, so let's go ahead and compile it. Run it. And say is the password correct? True. So this is how we find out our two strings. Do two strings have the same values? Let's say I entered the wrong password. And I'm going to run it to D2. Yeah, if you're a sci-fi fan, I don't know why I chose those names. If you're not, Google it. I'm going to compile it. I'm going to run it. And you can say is the password correct? False. Again, in the next unit, we'll learn how to change the output based on that. But if you're going to be comparing strings, we don't want to use, let's put this back to 1138. See if it works. I don't know if it's going to work. The rules in this were a little bit weird. In this case, it actually did work. There are a lot of cases where it doesn't. So please do not. So that is how we check if two strings are equal to other. So is the equals? And the last one, the last method I want to look at here is compare two. And this is really important when we're doing sorting and things like that. Let's compare a string to another. What do we mean by compare? So say int, I'm going to call this distance. I don't know what else to call it. Equals a.compare to. So think about this. We know the alphabet looks like this. So on and so forth. So compare to c. What is a? So from C. This is our starting point from C to a. How far away are they from each other? So minus one, minus two. I do system.system.out.printl. And distance. Run it. You get negative two. So common beginner mistake would be to get those backwards like positive two instead of negative two. So we reverse it. So compare to a. Where is C? So from a, one, two, it's positive two to the right is positive. Left is negative, just like a number line. And we get two. So that's pretty cool. Now we can also do, let's say we wanted to compare C to C. So what do you think the results going to be? So far is C away from C. And if you guess zero, it's the same distance, same place. You guessed right. So it is a zero. And this is something we would use with sorting. So we can also do not just single letters, but we can do actual words. This is where it actually comes in handy. So I'd say string. Singer one equals, we'll say Bob mold. It's the lead singer of Fiskardu. Sugar. Singer, singer, singer two. Bob Dylan who we need. So looking at these two. Let's go ahead and. Calculate the distance. So we're going to put singer, singer one dot. Here. Singer two. It's on a side note. Notice I did not put in here. So if I compile this. This variable distance is already defined. You only declare the type one time. After that. So let's look at this. So you can see here that B and B are the same. So you might think, okay, well it's going to return zero. Which would be wrong. But what happens is when the letters are the same, it looks at the next letter. Same, next letter, same, next letter, same. Ah, M and D. IJK. So it's going to compare the M and the D. So singer one is Bob mold compared to Bob Dylan. So starting at D. What's the distance to M? So it's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. It should give us, compile that, run it. That's the distance of nine, which is pretty cool. Yeah, pretty happy with that. And then just one last final thing here. Let's take a look at this. Let's say distance equals, if we do A, compare to, what do you think is going to, now a human being, you might think, well A and A are the same thing. But as was probably mentioned previously, every letter or every symbol has a number associated with it. So if I compile this, if I write to that and run it, you'll see that the answer is 32. So compared to A, this A is 32 in distance. So if you look up at what's called an ASCII table, you'll see that like A is like 65 and blah, blah, blah. And then small A is 97. So 97 minus 65 is 30. So you have to remember that everything in the computer's memory is... So anyway, that is the basics of strings. That is the five methods that are emphasized in the AP computer science. For those of you doing AP computer science. If you're not doing AP computer science, there are tons and tons and tons of Java string methods. And some of them are really helpful. A lot of them are really helpful. You can do a lot of really cool stuff. The simple ones are two lowercase where you can convert to lowercase and convert to uppercase. And there's like quite a lot of things that you do. Again, if you're an AP computer science student, you basically just need to know the five that I listed here. But anyway, it's definitely worth playing around with those. Before we finish, I do want to come back to this last part here about concepts, objects and collections. These are two really key concepts that you'll see in Java and especially in my course and in computer science. So what I mean by an object. An object is something that has attributes and methods. Attributes and... So in this case, a string. So a string has a value. So let's see here. Well, we'll just use what we have. So we already have... I'll say we'll do favor band. So string... string... band... here. So because... You notice this is capitalized. That tells us that this is an object. We'll learn more about this later. And because it's an object, this object has methods. So this is called dot notation, where you'll see object.met. On a side note, we also saw in the last unit, math.sqrt. That is a class.met. We'll learn more about it. But we have objects and these objects have methods. We looked at five for the string object. And we can create our object this way. Now, strings are a special type of object. There is another way to create objects. So it's string. Favorit band. View string. In this case, I would put the... I can't do it twice. I have to... Comment that out so I can pile it. This is the standard method of creating an object. So it is the class. Variable... new class. What are called arguments. So in the end, this is something that we'll come back to later when we learn more about objects. But anyway. This tells us that strings are objects. They follow the same rules as the naming rules as our primitives. So remember this phrase.notation. So object.met. One, two. And then the other thing that I want to look at is collections. This is a super important concept that you'll see over and over and over. So you can think of a string as a collection of characters. So... So you can say favoritband. It equals T plus H plus T plus space, etc, etc. And so on and so forth. It is a collection of these singular items. And what we'll be doing with this is later you'll learn different collections called arrays or an array list and 2D arrays. So what we can do is we can do quite a lot of functions. We can go through and determine, for example, is this a capital letter or not? We can count the number of capital letters. So what we do with a collection is we take each thing individually and one at a time we look at each individually. So it's something that you'll see later. I'm not going to go over here, but just understand this can be thought of as a collection of characters. And we will be doing tons and tons and tons of work with collections. They're just one of those key. So objects and collections. Yeah, this stuff we will go over quite a lot later. And that's something to be aware of. But going back to coding concepts we learned what a string is and is a text type. Oh, just a quick side note. If you're coming from other computer languages, you're probably used to doing something like this using single quotation marks. You do this in Java, it will not work. Java requires double quotation marks for strings. If it's a single quotation type, it is a char or char type. That's a Java thing. So don't make that mistake. And we looked at... Sorry, I was on the wrong screen there. So if you put single quotes here, single quotes there, you'll get a compilation error. So if you're coming from another language, you might be able to do that like Python, you can do that, but in Java you cannot. And then there are five main string methods that are used in the E, length, substring, index of, equals and compare to. And then also just a quick mention that strings are objects. And you can think of them as a collection of characters. Quite a lot. Anyway, thanks for watching and keep on coding.


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us understand the following problem today. If x, y, z are non-zero real numbers then the inverse of matrix A is equal to x00, 0, y0, 0, 0, z is a x inverse 0, 0, 0, y inverse 0, 0, 0, z inverse b x, y, z multiplied by x inverse 0, 0, 0, 0, y inverse 0, 0, 0, z inverse c 1 divided by x, y, z multiplied by x00, 0, y0, 0, 0, z d1 divided by x, y, z multiplied by 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1. Now let us write the solution. Given to us is A which is equal to x00, 0, y0, 0, 0, z. Now taking x, y, z common from rows r1, r2, r3 respectively we get x, y, z multiplied by 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1. Therefore a joint of A is equal to 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1. Now let us first find determinant A which is equal to x, y, z. Now therefore A inverse is equal to 1 by determinant A multiplied by a joint of A which is equal to 1 by x, y, z multiplied by 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1 which is equal to x inverse 00, 0, y inverse 0, 00, z inverse. This is the required answer. So the correct option is A. I hope you understood this problem by and have a nice day.


Hi and welcome back to another art journal video today I'm going to create a fun tag journal and I will be playing with a new to me product These are the transfer me pages. They are by dress my craft you use water to stick down whatever you like you can work with them as if they are collage papers and You can have a focal point that you can throw on yourself. You can have a focal point by using a stamp or Die, but sometimes you don't want to spend that much money on a stamp that you may use just once for a focal point So these are really inexpensive. They have amazing designs and you can get inspired just by having one of these pages You will find pages with large big flowers others with clusters that you can cut out and mix and match There are cuter and smaller designs that you can even work with them for your card making Here is an alphabet one. These are more vintage ones and for each one of the styles that you see There are tons and tons of different designs. So this is a more steampunky one I would say with clocks and gears and things like that Can't wait to use some of them in one of my art journals There are others that you can use as borders There are black and white and there are even others that I can use them to cover up completely a whole Background I'm going to leave links down below to both Jogles and scrapbook.com where they are available, but keep in mind that these are highly popular Just because they are about four dollars each So if you see some designs that are out of stock check back again You will find that they do restock regularly I will find that these are very easy to use and really fun to play with especially if you are a beginner Because you don't have to invest lots of money on stamps and dies to play with So for today, I'm going to create my own DIY tag journal I'm going to use a product that I have from last year where you get these Tags these are cheaper tags actually along with a couple of tapes and other goodies in this pack These are by art by Marlene. I am going to use some of them and put them together If you don't have this kit you can always create your own tags or just cut out your own pages I'm going to stick them together with the tape that is included in the kit and this is quite thin So when you stick them, you can't really tell once you apply the mediums on top where that tape is Just keep in mind that these tags are quite thick So as you stick them together make sure that you leave a little gap in between them so that you can open and close The book without problem at all. I used six tags for this journal And here's another one that I shared last year where I just used three of them Now that my tag journal is ready. Let's have some fun with the transfer me pages If you are concerned of making a mess on the other pages while working on one of them You can always use a craft mat in between the pages. You can even use a Scrap piece of paper. I'm not going to worry about that at all and After all it's a tag journal So it doesn't really matter if I have a couple of splotches here and there For my first page I decided to combine this wood background with the butterflies in this page So I'm going to first cut out a part of the wood background I'm not going to use it all so I can use it again or another page if I want to don't throw any leftover that you have and I'm going to cut out a couple of corners making sure that I don't have a straight line on the inside of the piece Decide where you want to stick them down and then there is a plastic cover at the top that you need to peel off Once you peel that off, it's going to reveal the Transfer and it is kind of sticky They recommend to dip it in water now for a few seconds However, I find that this way it is easier for me So all I do is to stick it down wherever I need this to go and then I spray on top with water I spray generously with water enough amount and as I spray you will see that I can kind of see what is underneath Once it's ready. You will see that it is easy to slide the top paper and reveal the beautiful design underneath The tag that I'm working on is thick keyboard which takes water nicely And it's not going to warp on me. If you don't have such tags You can always use a watercolor paper. Just make sure that the paper that you are working on takes Water nicely and it's not going to end up super curly Now I'm going to place the other corner at the top again Make sure that I stick that down nicely and I'm going to spray water on top The process is so much fun And if you like colas, you will have a lot of fun playing with those products And sometimes we want to try something new instead of using our stumps or our dyes It's always nice to play with something completely different so that we don't get bored in our craft room When I was a kid we used to have tattoos like that where you were sticking them on your hand and then you applied Water on top they work the same way But the designs are just adorable and you can find so much inspiration through all of these different designs I want to cover up the cutting line from the scissors and that's why I'm using gesso and if you are Concerned about the clothes. I need to let you know that these are kind of shiny No, they aren't actually shiny. They are they have that shot in finish Which means that if you cover up completely the whole project with your mat medium That is going to give you a certain finish then you are good to go. It's going to disguise Any shine now another thing that I did try was to cover up completely the whole project with Gesso clear gesso, which is going to disguise that satin finish too Now if you apply mat medium or gesso It is going to allow you to seal that and you can add even more Mediums on top before using them It was a concern for me if they are too glossy However, once I tried it I feel in love with them the satin finish is so subtle that it doesn't make a difference I'm using my heat gun to dry this first layer of gesso And then I'm going to bring in some butterflies which are going to be the focal point of my page Now you need to remember that these are transparent Which means that whatever you have at the back is going to blend with the design that you stick on top That's why I went with light colors for my background and I left a big area white I'm using my scissors to go around the areas that I want to use I'm going to separate those butterflies so that I have more flexibility on where I want to stick them down And I'm not leaving too much of a white space around the Butterfly however, I do want to use some of the letters that are all around It's easy to cut it with your scissors Of course, don't remove the transparency from the top Otherwise, you will have to fight with a sticky thing You can also use your paper trimmer to cut out strips if you like and I did even try to tear things And they do tear nicely even without removing that transparency at the top In this example and in the next page I'm going to show you how you can use those directly on top of your project However, if you don't want to risk it, you can always use it on a different paper and then cut it out And I'm going to create two examples using that technique So again, I have placed everything down and now I'm going to spray with lots of water Again after leaving that to soak in you can kind of see the butterfly through that paper And then I can gently slide the top paper And reveal the two designs I'm going to dry this out and let's do a couple of techniques to bring everything together So here again, I'm using the same paper Transfer me one and I did cut out a bunch of words I'm going to use this text here and there and I'm going to make sure that the text goes on top of my background As well as on top of some of the butterflies This way I am bringing everything together So it doesn't look as if I have elements just stuck there on top of my page Also, I don't care if this is readable at all Actually, I don't want that to be readable as I don't really care of what it says I just want to use that as a visual texture So I'm going to cut it in half and stick it on two different areas As you can see, I'm able to layer them up so I can apply one transfer on top of another So here for example, I only get the letters as the transfer and not a background I can still see the background beneath it If you notice here on the wooden background, I did apply some clear jesso And on the butterflies nothing So you see the clear jesso has no shine at all while the butterflies do have a little bit of a setting finish So it really depends on what you want to do and how you want the finished project to look like I'm going to add some stenciling here Just a very basic stencil with lots of dots and my embossing paste Making sure that I don't cover up any butterflies as I want them to be the focal point And then to finish it off, I'm just going to stick a chip code that says love this life This is quite dimensional, but I don't really care since this is the cover of my book So even a little bit of dimension is not a problem I have plenty of transfers from these two papers that I used Of course, I'm storing them so that I can use them in another project And here are some close-up photos on the first tag for today Now let's move on on our tag book If you want, you can work separately on each page or you can have a double spread I'm going to do both as an example So for this one, I'm going to work with these gorgeous big flowers And I'm going to do a double spread I'm going to transfer it exactly the same way as I did with the first project And then I'm going to show you a couple of quick and simple techniques On how we can bring everything together so it doesn't look as if it is just a sticker Here I applied a generous amount of water making sure that everything is nicely soaked into water And now although I am trying to gently pull the paper from the top Just because it is so big, it is almost impossible to do that So I'm just going to peel it off Which is something that I do not recommend However, I believe that just because I had too much water there I had no problem at all I'm going to dry that out. You can see it if you want I'm just going to leave it as it is And then again, just like I did with the first project I'm going to kind of erase that cutout line using my gesso Then I'm using this stencil with a really basic design And I'm applying again white embossing paste I make sure that I apply that design on both the white area that I used gesso on As well as on some of the transfer This way I have some elements in both areas and it kind of brings everything together If you want you can add color on top of your transfer And here I'm using just a spray. This is watercolour spray I repeated the same technique on both pages making sure that I have some of that color In different areas both on top of the transfer as well as on the white area down there And then I'm going to repeat the same process But instead of using the spray directly on the page I'm just going to apply a little bit on my craft mat This is vintage photo by the way And I will apply it with my brush This way I have more control of where I decide to add that brown color And you can always move the color with water That's the stress oxide so it's not going to dry as vibrant as you see that at the moment This is going to dry on top of the transfer However you do have some time to wipe off any color if you like From the transfer just because it has that satin finish by using your baby wipe So it works like an eraser here However if you apply clear gesso all over your background Then you will end up having a porous surface Which is going to soak any paint that you add on top I'm adding some white splashes just because I love those details And I can always go back with my gel pen And add some highlights here and there on the focal points The flowers, the leaves and the stems I'm also going to ink up the edges mainly at the top of the tags With vintage photo just because I want to have a darker border there And finally I'm going to add my quote For that I went with a sticker that says there is beauty in simplicity And I did add a black strip of washi tape with white polka dots And of course I do have more flowers left over which I'm going to store So I can use on another project Here are some close-up photos on this double spread Or my little tag journal In the next two pages I'm not going to do a double spread I'm going to work on them separately just as an example So I'm going to use some blue tape there to protect the other page And I'm going to go ahead and do a background This time I'm working with acrylic paints And I went with yellows, oranges and reds Use any acrylic paints that you have Anything goes on those tags I went with my acrylic paints by Arteza I have a box of 60 and I absolutely love the variety of them And you have probably seen me using those over the years I'm going to apply the color directly on my page and mix everything there I'm starting with yellows and oranges And it looks quite light at the moment Quite bright However I'm going to darken it up By using this darker shade of farad I wanted to create a darker page as an example Because I said in the first page that I made That you have to work on a lighter background However in this example and in the next page I'm going to show you that this is not something that you have to do every time If you want you can go darker And instead of just using the transfer me page directly on top of your background You can do it on top of another paper Which is white Then just cut it out and stick it on top Like we would normally do with our stumps Back to the background and I'm applying my acrylic colors This time over a stencil with a lovely design You will see that this is going to end up quite dark And this is what I was going for And the stencil that I'm using is by Art by Marlin From a previous collection And as my focal point I'm going to use this gorgeous lady From this transfer me page And if you take a look at her You will find out that she has Africa on her head I think this is such a stunning design I'm also going to cut out all the doodles that I can use for my background And once I have everything ready I can stick her on top of a white watercolor paper So that I can make a focal point separately All the pages that I ever make Have a meaning for me And this Africa page is very special for me Many people don't know that But I was born in Africa My parents are Greek But they used to live there for years I was born in Cameroon But I came back when I was a baby And I was raised in Greece My parents loved African artists And I was raised in a house Full of African art Around the walls So I can still remember those gorgeous ladies With the lovely silhouettes And the super colorful dresses And that's exactly what this transfer is And of course it's in my bucket list To finally some time Visit Africa And the place where I was born Now I'm making this a bigger focal point So I'm drawing a body for hair Of course this is a silhouette So I just want to have a rough idea Of a body I'm not going to draw hands etc And I'm absolutely in love with that African hair I'm using my scissors To cut around her And I'm using my scissors To cut around her And I'm not going to leave any white border I'm cutting exactly where that design is I don't want to see The white edge coming through From the watercolor paper So I'm going all around it With a black marker I'm also going to add some shadow On one side of her dress So that it doesn't look that flat It's going to give kind of a round effect And I want to give a shine To a beautiful face So that's why I'm going to add A dot of yellow On top of acrylic paint On top of my finger I'm just going to add a little bit of yellow At the back Of course you can do that with your brush I just love to get my hands dirty sometimes Also I'm going to use my brayer With just a touch of White paint This is so little I'm even going to brush it off On another paper To add just a touch here and there I think now I'm super happy With how the background looks So I can stick my lady on top I'm really really happy With how this turned out And I wish I had this transfer paper Into a bigger one I would definitely make a big project For my wall I'm using a thin black marker And I'm going all around the design To add some black lines Which is going to give a definition Of the point and the background I do have those cutouts The doodle ones Which I'm going to stick down On the background These are going to add some extra Visual texture back there And you can see this paste Is a mix of different techniques Where I'm using the transfer me Designs directly on top of my background While for the lady I did that separately Just like always I did use my white gel pen To do this as well as on the lady And I did went with a sticker For my quote That says Fearless, independent and original And you can see here some close up photos And since I was on an ethnic mood I decided to make the next page Using those elephants I will use the blue elephant As well as the pattern Which is absolutely beautiful From the side And again for the background I will use acrylic paint Directly on top of my tag Using 3 shades of blue Darker, mid and lighter And I'm following the exact same background technique Like I did in the previous page Where I'm mixing the colors Directly on top of my tag I'm going to leave that aside to dry And I will work on the focal points Where again I'm using A separate piece of paper So that I can apply the transfer me Of the elephant and the pattern And by now you probably know How this works I did that already in 3 pages So again I'm going to apply a generous amount of water And let it soak And then slide the top paper out I'm going to use my scissors To cut out all the elements from here And while I was cutting out the elephant I did leave a very thin White border all around It made cutting out the elephant Easier and it's not that Visible I used the pattern at the bottom So that I have kind of a ground For my elephant Then I stuck the elephant on top And in between I did add a strip Of gold cardstock Just to add a touch of shine Now this is a stencil that I used at the background Using the exact same Method like I did in the previous page Where I used darker acrylic paint Over it And now I'm just going to place it on top And use my white gel pen To add some highlights this way I just wanted to introduce Some white accents at the background Without adding splashes Because the plan here is to add golden Splashes all over the background For that I'm using my Brush as well as some Watercolor metallic paint And by the way I did cover The elephant so that I avoid having splashes By using that Transparency that I Pilled off before sticking him down And when it comes to elephants When I was a little girl Everyone who was asking me which is my favorite animal I would always say elephant I don't know why it was never a cat Or a dog I still have a little necklace that I was wearing all the time With a little elephant as a charm And I thought it was my likey one So that was the project for today I hope that you had fun as I played With the new to me product Which is transfer me You will find links down below to everything I used Thank you all so much for watching today And I'll see you all next time