Question: I'm very new to Java, or coding in general, and I'm trying to make a program that will take two values x and y, and show the sum, product and quotient of the two values. When running this code, I get error messages telling me x and y "may not be initialized". But x and y are only defined later in the scanner. How do I fix this?

```
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main
{

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        float x;
        float y;

        float sum = x + y;
        float product = x * y;
        float quotient = x / y;

        Scanner input = new Scanner (System.in);

            System.out.println("Enter a value for x: ");

            x = input.nextFloat();

            System.out.println("Enter a value for y: ");

            y = input.nextFloat();

        input.close();

            System.out.println("x + y is: " + sum);

            System.out.println("x * y is: " + product);

            System.out.println("x / y is: " + quotient);

    }
}

```

Answer: 
You can use the below code to create shortcut to a directory

```
from win32com.client import Dispatch

path = r"C:\Users\user\Downloads\shortcut.lnk"  #This is where the shortcut will be created
target = r"C:\Users\user\Downloads" # directory to which the shortcut is created

shell = Dispatch('WScript.Shell')
shortcut = shell.CreateShortCut(path)
shortcut.Targetpath = target
shortcut.save()

```
**Backslashes** (`\`) must be used in `shortcut.Targetpath` for shortcuts to work correctly for folders.