{"id":396,"date":"2007-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.strongd.net\/?p=396"},"modified":"2007-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T00:00:00","slug":"Language Basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/?p=396","title":{"rendered":"Language Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV id=PageTitle>Language Basics<\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<H3><A class=TutorialLink href=\"http:\/\/www.strongd.net\/blog\/show\/392\" target=_top>Variables<\/A><\/H3><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>You&#8217;ve already learned that objects store their state in fields. However, the Java programming language also uses the term &#8220;variable&#8221; as well. This section discusses this relationship, plus variable naming rules and conventions, basic data types (primitive types, character strings, and arrays), default values, and literals. <\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<H3><A class=TutorialLink href=\"http:\/\/www.strongd.net\/blog\/show\/393\" target=_top>Operators<\/A><\/H3><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>This section describes the operators of the Java programming language. It presents the most commonly-used operators first, and the less commonly-used operators last. Each discussion includes code samples that you can compile and run. <\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<H3><A class=TutorialLink href=\"http:\/\/www.strongd.net\/blog\/show\/395\" target=_top>Expressions, Statements, and Blocks<\/A><\/H3><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>Operators may be used in building expressions, which compute values; expressions are the core components of statements; statements may be grouped into blocks. This section discusses expressions, statements, and blocks using example code that you&#8217;ve already seen. <\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<H3><A class=TutorialLink href=\"http:\/\/www.strongd.net\/blog\/show\/394\" target=_top>Control Flow Statements<\/A><\/H3><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE>This section describes the control flow statements supported by the Java programming language. It covers the decisions-making, looping, and branching statements that enable your programs to conditionally execute particular blocks of code. <\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Language Basics Variables You&#8217;ve already learned that objects store their state in fields. However, the Java programming language also uses the term &#8220;variable&#8221; as well. This section discusses this relationship, plus variable naming rules and conventions, basic data types (primitive types, character strings, and arrays), default values, and literals. Operators This section describes the operators &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/?p=396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Language Basics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strongd.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}