Thread: Basic question, but cant figure it out, answer is probably obvious

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First off, I am very VERY new to Java and my college ended up going online for this class, so I having hard time on some things.

I have the following code, (see below). The issue is it will not return a new balance amount. I have tried many changes and cannot get it to work. If someone could please explain where I am messing up and why, I'd appreciate it.

package pkg05lab;
 
import java.util.Scanner;
 
public class AccountHolder 
{
    static Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    static double balance;
 
 
    public static void main(String args[])
    {
 
    AccountHolder myAccount = new AccountHolder();    
 
    System.out.printf("Initial Balance is: %.2f%n%n", 
            myAccount.getBalance());
 
    System.out.println("Please enter the Balance: ");    
    double newBalance = sc.nextDouble();
    myAccount.setBalance(newBalance);
 
    System.out.printf("Amount in current Balance is: %.2f%n", 
            myAccount.getBalance());
 
    }
    private double newBalance;
 
    public void setBalance(double balance) 
    {
        newBalance = balance;
    }
 
    public double getBalance() 
    {
        return balance;
    }
 
}

Output when run:

run:
Initial Balance is: 0.00

Please enter the Balance:
1234.56
Amount in current Balance is: 0.00
BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 13 seconds)

it will not return a new balance amount

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