Operators and Assignments (Part 1)

This section discusses operators and expressions and teaches different controls structures that govern the path of execution or flow.

Section Objectives

Understand the difference between local and instance variables

Describe how instance variables are initialized

Understand and use operators in Java

Distinguish between legal and illegal assignments of primitive types

Use boolean expressions in control constructs

Recognise type compatibility and casting types to others

Use if, switch, for, while, do constructions and use break and continue flow structures within a program