Need help returning largest of three numbers....

Question

Hello,
I'm stuck in an essential part of a program. The objective of the program is suppose to call a static method that will find and return the largest of three numbers. Im suppose to test the program with the following three sets of three numbers: (2, 5, 8), (2, 10, 5), (67, 23, 17).
After lots of thinking, I decided to write a program that will do exactly what the objective requires, but without calling a static method that will find and return. I tried calling a static method but it's real confusing and I couldnt do it right.
Below is my program, the top part is right I think, but calling a static method and returning the value is the part Im having trouble in.
// The "LargeNum3" class.
import java.awt.*;
import hsa.Console;
public class LargeNum3
    static Console c;           // The output console
    public static void main (String [] args)
        c = new Console ();
        int num [] = new int [3];
        int largest;
        largest = num [0];
        for (int i = 0 ; i < 3 ; i++)
            c.println ("Please enter in 3 values");
            for (int a = 0 ; a < 3 ; a++)
                num [a] = c.readInt ();
            for (int b = 0 ; b < num.length ; b++)
                if (num > largest)
largest = num [b];
c.println ();
c.println ("The largest number is " + largest);
c.println ();
} // LargeNum3 class

Answer 1

// The "LargeNum3" class.
import java.awt.*;
import hsa.Console;
public class LargeNum3
    static Console c;           // The output console
    // Declare a new static method to return the
    // largest number in the array passed to it
    public static int findLargest(int[] nums)
        int j, largest=nums[0];
        for (j=1; j<nums.length; j++)
            if (nums[j]>largest) largest=nums[j];
        return largest;
    public static void main (String [] args)
        c = new Console ();
        int num [] = new int [3];
        // int largest;
        // largest = num [0]; It was wrong to put this here in
        // in the first place
        for (int i = 0 ; i < 3 ; i++)
            c.println ("Please enter in 3 values");
            for (int a = 0 ; a < 3 ; a++)
                num [a] = c.readInt ();
            c.println ();
            c.println ("The largest number is " + findLargest(num));
            c.println ();
} // LargeNum3 class