JAVASCRIPT

make the first letter of a string upper case

>>> "hello world".title()
'Hello World'
>>> u"hello world".title()
u'Hello World'

how to check if the first letter of a string is capitalized or uppercase in js

/**** Check if First Letter Is Upper Case in JavaScript***/
function startsWithCapital(word){
    return word.charAt(0) === word.charAt(0).toUpperCase()
}

console.log(startsWithCapital("Hello")) // true
console.log(startsWithCapital("hello")) // false

Uppercase first letter of variable

var str = "hello world";
str = str.toLowerCase().replace(/[a-z]/g, function(letter) {
    return letter.toUpperCase();
});
alert(str); //Displays "Hello World"

Checking if the first letter of the string is uppercase

   if (this.state.name[0] >= 'A' && this.state.name[0] <= 'Z')
      this.setState({ name: "First letter is uppercase" })
    else
      this.setState({ name: "First letter is NOT uppercase" })
  }

first letter of string is capital

public static void main(String[] args)
 {
     System.out.println("Enter name");
     Scanner kb = new Scanner (System.in);
     String text =  kb.next();

     if ( null == text || text.isEmpty())
     {
         System.out.println("Text empty");
     }
     else if (text.charAt(0) == (text.toUpperCase().charAt(0)))
     {
         System.out.println("First letter in word "+ text + " is upper case");
     }
  }