[staykovmarin]

Is ConsoleProgram a subclass of Thread, or is it implementing Runnable? If it was, then what you are doing when you create a run() method, is you are telling it what the thread will execute (by overriding the run() method)

If ConsoleProgram extends Thread:

Code:

AverageTwoDoubles avg = new AverageTwoDoubles();
avg.start()

That will run the code inside the run() method.


If ConsoleProgram implements Runnable

Code:

Thread t = new Thread(new AverageTwoDoubles());
t.start();

That will run the code in the run() method (again in a separate thread)

edit: if ConsoleProgram doesn't extend Thread, nor implement Runnable, then you are simply creating a method called run() that executes some code.