How to calculate area of triangle in Java - Program

Writing a Java program to calculate the area of a triangle is one of the basic programming exercises to develop coding sense on beginner programmers. Like many mathematical conceptual programs e.g. square root, factorial, or prime number this also serves a good exercise for beginners. Now, if you remember in maths you might have seen two main ways to calculate the area of a triangle, using vertices and using base and height. In this program, I have created two methods to calculate the area of a triangle using both ways. In the first method area(Point a, Point b, Point c)  we expect coordinates of three vertices of triangle and then we calculate area of triangle using the formula (Ax(By -Cy) + Bx(Cy -Ay) + Cx(Ay - By))/2, while in second method, area(int base, int height) we expect value of base and height and then we calculate are of triangle using formula (base * height) / 2.

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