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A Typical First Programming Challenge:
Extreme Difference of a Triple

Objectives

  1. To make sure your are operationally competent
    at writing and running a Java program.

  2. To provide you with a simple opportunity to
    compose a program of a few very simple constructs,
    including variable declarations, expressions
    involving int objects, message sends to the IO
    object, the assignment operator, and simple statement
    selection.

The Problem

Prompt the user to enter three integers. Read
the three integers. Compute and print the
difference between the largest and the smallest
number read. Do so in the context of the following
restrictions: