Chapter 2: Java

Fundamentals

Operators
 Content

• Group of Operators
• Arithmetic Operators
• Assignment Operator
• Order of Precedence
• Increment/Decrement Operators
• Relational Operators
• Logical Operators

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 Operators
• Operators are special symbols used for:
– mathematical functions
– assignment statements
– logical comparisons
• Examples of operators:
– 3+5 // uses + operator
– 14 + 5 – 4 * (5 – 3) // uses +, -, * operators
• Expressions: can be combinations of
variables and operators that result in a
value
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 Groups of Operators
• There are 5 different groups of
operators:
– Arithmetic Operators
– Assignment Operator
– Increment / Decrement Operators
– Relational Operators
– Logical Operators

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Java Arithmetic Operators

Addition +
Subtraction –
Multiplication 
Division /
Remainder (modulus ) %

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 Arithmetic Operators

• The following table summarizes the

arithmetic operators available in
Java.

This
Thisisisan
aninteger
integerdivision
division
where
where the fractionalpart
the fractional part
isistruncated.
truncated.

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 Example

Example of division issues:

10 / 3 gives 3
10.0 / 3 gives 3.33333
As we can see,
•if we divide two integers we get an
integer result.
•if one or both operands is a floating-point
value we get a floating-point result.

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 Modulus

Generates the remainder when you

divide two integer values.
5%3 gives 2 5%4 gives 1
5%5 gives 0 5%10 gives 5
Modulus operator is most commonly
used with integer operands. If we
attempt to use the modulus operator
on floating-point values we will
garbage!
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 Order of Precedence

( ) evaluated first, inside-out

, /, or % evaluated second, left-to-right

+,  evaluated last, left-to-right

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 Operator

• We assign a value to a variable using the basic

assignment operator (=).
• Assignment operator stores a value in memory.
• The syntax is
leftSide = rightSide ;

eitheraaliteral
ItItisiseither literal| |
Allways
Allwaysititisisaa aavariable
variable
variable
variableidentifier. identifier
identifier| |an
Examples: identifier.
expression.
expression.
an

i = 1;
start = i;
sum = firstNumber + secondNumber;
avg = (one + two + three) / 3;
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 The Right Side of the
Assignment Operator
• The Java assignment operator
assigns the value on the right side
of the operator to the variable
appearing on the left side of the
operator.
• The right side may be either:
• Literal: ex. i = 1;
• Variable identifier: ex. start = i;
• Expression: ex. sum = first + second;

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 Assigning Literals
• In this case, the literal is stored in
the space memory allocated for
the variable at [Link]
A. left
Variables
side.
Variables
in
are
are
memory.
allocated in memory.

firstNumber 11
A
A
secondNumber ???
???
int firstNumber=1, secondNumber;
firstNumber = 234;
secondNumber = 87; B
B B.
B. Literals
Literalsare
are
assigned
assignedtotovariables.
variables.

firstNumber 234
Code secondNumber 87

State of Memory
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 Assigning Variables
• In this case, the value of the
variable at the right side is stored
in the space memory allocated for
the variable at [Link]
[Link] Variablesside.
Variables are
are
in memory.
allocated in memory.

firstNumber 11
A
A
i ???
???
int firstNumber=1, i;
firstNumber = 234;
i = firstNumber; B
B B.
B. values
valuesare
areassigned
assigned
totovariables.
variables.

firstNumber 234
Code i 234

State of Memory
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 Assigning Expressions
• In this case, the result of the
evaluation of the expression is stored
in the space memory allocated for
variable at the left side.
A.
[Link]
Variablesare
are
allocated
allocatedininmemory.
memory.

first 11 second ???

???
A
A
int first, second, sum; sum ???
???
first = 234;
second = 87; B
B B.
B. Values
Valuesare
are
Sum = first + second assigned
assignedtotovariables.
variables.

first 234
234 second 87
87
Code
sum 321
321

State of Memory
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 Updating Data
A.
[Link]
Thevariable
variable
isisallocated
allocatedinin
memory.
memory.
number ???
???

B.
[Link]
Thevalue
value237
237
isisassigned
assignedtoto
number.
number
number.
number

number 237
int number; A
A
number = 237; B
B C.
[Link]
Thevalue
value35
35
number = 35; C
C overwrites
overwritesthe
previous
the
previous value237.
value 237.

number 35

Code State of Memory

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 Example: Sum of two
integer
public class Sum {

// main method
public static void main( String args[] ){
int a, b, sum;
a = 20;
b = 10;
sum = a + b;
[Link](a + ” + ” + b + “ = “ + sum);

} // end main

} // end class Sum

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 Arithmetic/Assignment
Operators

Java allows combining arithmetic and

assignment operators into a single
operator:

Addition/assignment +=
Subtraction/assignment =
Multiplication/assignment =
Division/assignment /=
Remainder/assignment %=
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 Arithmetic/Assignment
Operators
• The syntax is eitheraaliteral
ItItisiseither literal| |
aavariable
variable
leftSide Op= rightSide ;
identifier
identifier| |an an
expression.
expression.

Allways
Allwaysititisisaa
variable
variableidentifier.
identifier. anarithmetic
ItItisisan arithmetic
operator.
operator.

• This is equivalent to:

leftSide = leftSide Op rightSide ;

• x%=5;  x = x % 5;
• x*=y+w*z;  x = x*(y+w*z);

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 Increment/Decrement
Operators

Only use ++ or   when a

variable is being
incremented/decremented as a
statement by itself.
x++; is equivalent to x = x+1;

x--; is equivalent to x = x-1;

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 Relational Operators
• Relational operators compare two
values
• They Produce a boolean value (true or
false) depending
Operation Is trueon
whenthe relationship

a >b a is greater than b

a >=b a is greater than or equal to b

a ==b a is equal to b

a !=b a is not equal to b

a <=b a is less than or equal to b

a <b a is less than b

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 Example

• int x = 3;
• int y = 5;
• boolean result;
result = (x > y);
• now result is assigned the value
false because 3 is not greater than
5

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 Logical Operators
Symbol Name
&& AND
|| OR
! NOT

&& T F || T F

T T F T T T

F F F F T F

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 Example
boolean x = true;
boolean y = false;
boolean result;

result = (x && y);

result is assigned the value false

result = ((x || y) && x);

(x || y) evaluates to true
(true && x) evaluates to true
result is then assigned the value
true

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 Operators Precedence

Parentheses (), inside-out

Increment/decrement ++, --, from left to right
Multiplicative *, /, %, from left to right
Additive +, -, from left to right
Relational <, >, <=, >=, from left to right
Equality ==, !=, from left to right
Logical AND &&
Logical OR ||
Assignment =, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=

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