2 Language Fundamentals

Exam Objectives

1.3 Develop code that declares, initializes, and uses primitives, arrays, enums, and objects as static, instance, and local variables. Also, use legal identifiers for variable names.

• For arrays, see Section 3.6, p. 69.

• For enums, see Section 3.5, p. 54.

• For initializers, see Section 9.7, p. 406.

Supplementary Objectives

• Be able to identify the basic elements of the Java programming language: keywords, identifiers, literals and primitive data types.

• Understand the scope of variables.

• Understand initializing variables with default values.

2.1 Basic Language Elements

Like any other programming language, the Java programming language is defined by grammar rules that specify how syntactically ...

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