How to properly quit a program?

I remember reading somewhere that most Windows users who switched to Mac don't know how to properly quit a program. So, how do I "properly" quit a program when using Mac?
Thank you in advance for your reply.

Select Quit from the program's name menu which is usually the first item after the Apple menu in the left corner of the screen's menubar. Or you can press COMMAND and "Q" keys together which will quit the frontmost application.
Other options include CTRL- or RIGHT-clicking on the application's Dock icon and selecting Quit from the context menu. For misbehaving applications you may find a Force Quit option in the context menu. You can open the task manager by pressing COMMAND-OPTION-ESC keys together. Select the running application you wish to quit then click on the Force Quit button.

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Hi,
The program below runs perfectly fine, however once I get to the stage of quitting it doesn't work.
I would like 'Press any key to continue' to appear once I have pressed q.
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public class Week7777
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Hello Dr Clap
Thank you for your reply. I really appreciate it.
It's just that I have only recently started learning how to use Java, I am still building on my knowledge.
My program works, however once I get to quitting the program by pressing 'q', the following comes up, rather than 'Press any key to continue' which is the ideal.
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I sent you the complete program, what details are you talking about?
I am not quite sure where I went wrong. So I would really appreciate it if you could help me.
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public class Week77
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int j = 0;
while (j <1)
Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
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int inputmark = Integer.parseInt(input);
char g = getGrade(inputmark);
if (inputmark<=100)
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else if (mark>= 60)
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else if (mark>= 50)
grade ='C';
else if (mark>= 40)
grade ='D';
else if (mark<40)
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