- [Narrator] Hello and welcome to this Cloud Academy course, JShell. In this lecture we'll introduce you to the course agenda and learning objectives. This training course introduces you to the Java Shell tool, or JShell. The Java Shell tool is an interactive tool for learning the Java programming language and prototyping with Java code. By completing this course, you will understand what the JShell tool is and how to use it, understand the benefits of using JShell, understand and appreciate that JShell is a read, evaluate, print, loop tool which evaluates declarations, statements, and expressions as they are rendered, and be able to use JShell to help you try out your own code, such that you can easily explore options as you develop your own programs. Okay, the course introduction has now been completed. Go ahead and close this picture, and we'll see you shortly in the next one.