Java for Absolute Beginners: Learn to Program the Fundamentals the Java 9+ Way

© Iuliana Cosmina 2018

Iuliana CosminaJava for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3778-6_6

6. Operators

Iuliana Cosmina¹ 

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Edinburgh, UK

 

The previous chapters covered the basic concepts of Java programming. You were taught how to organize your code, how your files should be named, and which data types you can use, depending on the problem you are trying to solve. You were taught how to declare fields, variables, and methods and how they were stored in memory to help you design your solutions so that resource consumption is optimal.

In this chapter, you learn to combine declared variables using operators. Most Java operators are the ones you know from math, but because programming involves types other than numeric, extra operators ...