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Millions of K-12 students now spend time taking online classes. But what those experiences look like, the reasons such courses are offered, and the entities that provide them all vary tremendously.

Though Java already has a character type and char keyword to represent and manipulate characters, the language also requires a Character class for two reasons: Character c1 = new Character ('A'); ...