Ch 2 Questions #1

Primitive Types

1. How many primitive types are there and what are their names and reserved words.

2. In a program you declare a boolean data type and then set it equal to 1 (e.g. boolean boo = 1 ;). You then attempt to to print out the variable. What will happen?

3. How do you declare a character data type and assign a value to it?

4. What is the difference between an integer and a double?

5. You declare an integer (e.g. int i) and then set the variable equal to 10.87. What will happen?

6. result = 14 + 8 / 2 will produce what value in result?

7. result = 28 % 3 will produce what value in result?

8. How do you convert an integer type into a double?

9. Suppose you divided two integers say 8 divided by three and placed the result into an integer type result. What will be the value of result?

10. How do make a constant in Java?