In Java, we don’t need to write “THEN.” Instead, we use an open curly bracket to say that everything that follows is part of that “code block” and should run under the conditions we specify.

Writing if statements. The simplest of Java’s decision statements is the if statement, which evaluates a Boolean expression and executes another statement when this expression evaluates to true.

Quickly learn how to use the Java ternary operator and see how this simple programming construct can help make your conditional logic, if statements and return statements clearer and more concise.

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Java is one of the most in-demand programming languages in the world and one of the two official programming languages used in Android development (the other being Kotlin). Developers familiar ...

Compared to many other popular programming languages-- such as C and Python -- Java is more verbose. You have to write more Java code to implement the same amount of functionality, and the more code ...