Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

66 CHAPTER 2 Programming Building Blocks—Java Basics

TABLE 2.11 Operator Precedence

Operator Order of Same-Statement

Hierarchy Evaluation Operation

() left to right parentheses for explicit grouping

*,/,% left to right multiplication,division,modulus

+,– left to right addition,subtraction

= right to left assignment

the right side of the assignment operator. For example, we could use these

statements to assign 32 to the variable age, then later add 1 to that value.

int age = 32;

...

age = age + 1; // now, age is 33

2.4.3 Operator Precedence

The statements in Example 2.7 perform simple calculations, but what if

you want to calculate how much money you have ...