Types And Objects In Java
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All the major programming languages come with common types out of the box, and Java is no different. You can refer to the lesson above to learn more about specific types, here we are going to look at how to create instances of them in Java.
We can declare a new type just by declaring the type and providing a name and ending the line.
int myAge;
Or we can go one further and also assign a values
int myAge = 31;
Here is a list of the common types in Java.
int myInt = 31;
double myDouble = 31.7;
short myShort = 14000;
//Adding the L tells the compiler this number is a Long, without the L is treats it as an int
long myLong = 1900617361876L;
boolean myBoolean = true;
char myChar = 'r';
String myString = "richard is friendly";
//The [] tells Java we want an array of the type
//The {} is used to start and end the content of the array
char[] myCharArray = { 'r', 'i', 'c', 'h', 'a', 'r', 'd' };
int[] myIntArray = { 1, 2, 3, 4 , 5, 6, 7 };
String[] myStringArray = {"Richard", "Java", "Testing"};
Have a look at the code example for some code you can download and run and see how these types behave.
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