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| A named storage location for values. All variables have a type, which is declared when the variable is created |
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| A number or string (or other thing to be named later) that can be stored in a variable. Every value belongs to a type |
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| A set of values. The type of a variable determines which values can be stored there. The types we have seen are integers (int in Java) and strings (String in Java) |
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| A reserved word used by the compiler to parse programs. You cannot use keywords, like public, class and void as variable names |
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| A statement that creates a new variable and determines its type |
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| A statement that assigns a value to a variable |
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| A combination of variables, operators and values that represents a single value. Expressions also have types, as determined by their operators and operands |
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| A symbol that represents a computation like addition, multiplication or string concatenation |
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| One of the values on which an operator operates |
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| The order in which operations are evaluated |
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| To join two operands end-to-end |
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| The ability to combine simple expressions and statements into compound statements and expressions to represent complex computations concisely |
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