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Java Programming for Beginners
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Java Programming for Beginners

by SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff
October 2017
Beginner
318 pages
7h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Memory allocation for integer variables

Let's go over an edge case and learn a little bit more about how Java thinks. You might remember from earlier, I spoke about how Java sets aside memory when we declare new variables. This is one of the huge advantages of working in a high-level programming language, such as Java. Java abstracts away or automatically takes care of most of the memory management for us. Quite often, this makes writing programs simpler, and we can write shorter, cleaner, and more easily readable code. Of course, it is important that we appreciate what's happening behind the scenes, lest we run into issues.

For example, whenever Java sets aside memory for an integer variable, it also sets aside the same amount of memory ...

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