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JAVA PROGRAM

Java Source
Code

Java Compiler

Applet Type Application Type

Java Enabled
Browser Java Interpreter

Output
Output
SIMPLE JAVA PROGRAM-EXAMPLE 1
/*This is a simple java program*/
class Example
{
public static void main (String args[])
{
System.out.println (“This is a simple Java program”);
}
}
SIMPLE JAVA PROGRAM-SOME
IMPORTANT POINTS
 public: Access specifier. main() must be made public,
since it must be called by code defined outside it’s class.
 Static: It is required because main() is called without
creating an object of it’s class
 String args[]: An array of objects of type String class.
Each object of type string contains a character string. It
is used to manipulate command line argument.
 Java is case sensitive.
 System predefined class that refers to system.
out It is static data member of System class
println() It is a member of out object
JRE AND JDK
 JRE: Java Runtime Environment
 provides
 libraries,

 Java virtual machine,

 other components necessary for you to run applets

and applications
 JDK: Java Development Kit
 includes
 JRE

 command-line development tools such as compilers

and debuggers
IMPLEMENTING A JAVA PROGRAM
1. Creating a java program
2. Compiling a java program
3. Running the program

Creating a Java Program:

1. All java source file has an extension .java.
2. If a program contains multiple classes, the file name
must be the class name of the class containing the
main method.
IMPLEMENTING A JAVA PROGRAM
Compiling a Java Program:
 To compile a java program, execute the java compiler
javac, specifying the name of the source file on the
command line. C:\> javac Example.java
 When java source code is compiled, each individual
class is put into it’s own output file named after the class
and using the .class extension.
 Each file with .class extension contains the bytecode
corresponding to that class
IMPLEMENTING A JAVA PROGRAM
 To run the program, interpreter java is used the name of
the class that contains the main function.
c:\> java Example
 Actually it searches for Example. class file.
SIMPLE JAVA PROGRAM – EXAMPLE 2
import java.lang.Math
class SquareRoot
{
public static void main (String args [])
{
double x=5, y;
y = Math.sqrt(x);
System.out.println(“y = “+y);
}
}
THE PRIMITIVE TYPES
 There are exactly eight primitive data types in Java
 Four of them represent whole valued signed numbers:
 byte, short, int, long
 Two of them represent floating point numbers:
 float, double
 One of them represents characters:
 char
 And one of them represents boolean values:
 boolean
NUMERIC PRIMITIVE TYPES
 The difference between the various numeric primitive
types is their size, and therefore the values they can
store:

Type Storage Min Value Max Value

byte 8 bits -128 127

short 16 bits -32,768 32,767
int 32 bits -2,147,483,648 2,147,483,647
long 64 bits < -9 x 1018 > 9 x 1018

float 32 bits
double 64 bits
CHAR
 It uses unicode to represent character.
 The char type is unsigned 16 bit values ranging from 0 to 65536.
 ASCII still ranges from 0 to 127.

Example:
class test
{
public static void main (String args[])
{
char ch1, ch2;
ch1=88;
ch2=‘Y’;
System.out.println (“ch1 and ch2: “ + ch1+” “+ch2);
}
}
Output: ch1 and ch2: X Y
BOOLEANS
 Size is 1 bit – two value: true and false.
 This type is returned by all relational operators.
 Example:
boolean b;
b= true;
1. System.out.println(“b is “+b);
2. System.out.println(“10>9 is “ +(10>9));

Output:
b is true
10>9 is true
 VARIABLES
 Variable is a name for a location in memory.
 Declaring a variable:
type identifier [=value][,identifier [=value]….];
 The initialization expression must result in a value of the
same or compatible type as that specified for the
variable.
 Dynamic Initialization: initialization expression may use
any element valid at the time of initialization, including
calls to methods, other variables, or literals.
 When a variable is not initialized, the value of that
variable is undefined.
 SCOPE AND LIFETIME OF A
VARIABLE
 A block begins with an opening curly brace and ends by
a closing curly brace.
 A block determines scope, that defines which objects are
visible to other parts of your program.
 Variables declared within a block localize themselves.
 In case of nested block, the outer block encloses the
inner block. The variables declared in the outer block is
visible to the inner block but the reverse is not true.
 A variable will not hold it’s value once it has gone out of
it’s scope.
 In an inner block, it is not possible to declare a variable
of the same name as in outer block.
 SCOPE AND LIFETIME OF A
VARIABLE
Example:
public static void main( String args[])
{
int x =10;
if ( x == 10)
{
int y =20;
System.out.println(“x and y: “ +x +” “+y);
x= y * 2;
}
y= 100; //Error
System.out.println (“x is “+x);
}
 AUTOMATIC TYPE
CONVERSION
 When one type of data is assigned to another type of
variable, an automatic type conversion will take place if:
1. Two types are compatible.
2. The destination type is larger than the source type.
 It is known as widening conversion.
 The numeric types, including integer and floating point
types are compatible.
 Numeric types are not compatible with char or boolean.
 Char and boolean are not compatible with each other.
 CASTING TYPE
 Problem: assigning int value to a byte type variable.
 This type of conversion is known as narrowing conversion.
 A cast is simply an explicit type conversion : (target_type) value
 Example:
int a;
byte b;
….
b = (byte) a;

Contains the remainder of an integer division by byte’s range.

 CASTING TYPE
class test
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
byte b;
int i = 257;
double d = 323.142;
b=(byte)i;
System.out.println (“Conversion of int to byte: ” + i +” “+ b);
i = (int)d;
System.out.println(“Conversion of double to int: “ +d+” “+i);
b=(byte)d;
System.out.println(“Conversion of double to byte: “ +d+” “+b);
}
};
 CASTING TYPE
 Output:
Conversion of int to byte: 257 1
Conversion of double to int: 323.142 323
Conversion of double to byte: 323.142 67
 CONTROL STATEMENT
 Java’s control statements can be put into following categories:
 Selection statement

 Iteration statement

 Jump statement

 Three decision making statements:

1. if statement

2. switch statement

3. conditional operator statement

 THE IF STATEMENT
 The if statement has the following syntax:

The condition must be a boolean expression.

if is a Java It must evaluate to either true or false.
reserved word

if (condition)
statement;
Statement x;

If the condition is true, the statement is executed. 22

If it is false, the statement is skipped.
THE IF-ELSE STATEMENT
 An else clause can be added to an if statement to make an
if-else statement
if ( condition )
statement1;
else
statement2;
Statement x;

If the condition is true, statement1 is executed; if the

condition is false, statement2 is executed
One or the other will be executed, but not both 23
 NESTED IF….ELSE
STATEMENTS
 The if..else statement can be contained in another if or else
statement.
if (test condition1)
{
if (test condition2)
statement-1;
else
statement-2;
}
else
statement-3;
statement-x;
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 NESTED IF….ELSE
STATEMENTS
 An else clause is matched to the last unmatched if (no
matter what the indentation implies!)
 Example:
if(data)
if(rate>5000)
taka = 0.05 * rate;
else
taka = 0.02 * rate;
rate = rate + taka;
 Braces can be used to specify the if statement to which
an else clause belongs
 THE IF-ELSE-IF LADDER
 Sometime you want to select one option from several
alternatives
true
conditon1
if (conditon1) evaluated
statement1
statement1;
false
else if (condition2)
statement2; conditon2 true
statement2
else if (condition3) evaluated

statement3; false
else true
conditon3 statement3
statement4; evaluated

false

statement4
THE SWITCH STATEMENT
 The switch statement provides another means to decide which
statement to execute next
 The switch statement evaluates an expression, then attempts to
match the result to one of several possible cases
 The expression of a switch statement must result in an integral
type (byte, short, int, char etc)

Note: JDK 7 allows expression can be of type String.

 The flow of control transfers to statement associated with the
first value that matches 27
THE SWITCH STATEMENT
 The general syntax of a switch statement is:

switch (expression) {
case value1:
statement-list1
switch break;
and case value2:
case statement-list2
are break;
reserved case value3:
words statement-list3 If expression
break; matches value2,
case default: control jumps
statement-list4 from here
}
THE SWITCH STATEMENT
 A break statement causes control to transfer to the end of the
switch statement
 If a break statement is not used, the flow of control will
continue into the next case
 Sometimes this can be appropriate, but usually we want to
execute only the statements associated with one case
THE SWITCH STATEMENT
 A switch statement can have an optional default case
 The default case has no associated value and simply uses
the reserved word default
 If the default case is present, control will transfer to it if
no other case value matches
 If there is no default case, and no other value matches,
control falls through to the statement after the switch
 SWITCH EXAMPLE
char letter = 'b'; char letter = 'b';

switch (letter) { switch (letter) {

case 'a': case 'a':
System.out.println("A"); System.out.println("A");
break; case 'b':
case 'b': System.out.println("B");
System.out.println("B"); case 'c':
break; System.out.println("C");
case 'c': break;
System.out.println("C"); case 'd':
break; System.out.println("D");
case 'd': break;
System.out.println("D"); default:
break; System.out.println(”?");
default: }
System.out.println(”?");
}

B B
C
ITERATION STATEMENTS
 Iteration statements allow us to execute a statement multiple times until a
termination condition is met.
 Often they are referred to as loops
 Java has three kinds of iteration statements:
 the while loop
 the do-while loop
 the for loop
THE WHILE STATEMENT
 The while statement has the following syntax:

while (condition)
while is a
statement;
reserved word

If the condition is true, the statement is executed.

Then the condition is evaluated again.

The statement is executed repeatedly until 33

the condition becomes false.
LOGIC OF A WHILE LOOP

condition
evaluated

true false

statement

Note that if the condition of a while statement is false

initially, the statement is never executed. Therefore, the body
of a while loop will execute zero or more times
WHILE LOOP EXAMPLE
int LIMIT = 5;
int count = 1;
Output:
while (count <= LIMIT) {
1
System.out.println(count); 2
3
count += 1;
4
} 5

--Null statements are valid in java.

NESTED LOOPS
 Similar to nested if statements, loops can be nested as
well
 That is, the body of a loop can contain another loop
 Each time through the outer loop, the inner loop goes
through its full set of iterations
 THE DO-WHILE
STATEMENT
 The do-while statement has the following syntax:

do and do{
while are statement;
reserved } while (condition);
words

The statement is executed once initially,

and then the condition is evaluated

The statement is executed repeatedly

until the condition becomes false
 DO-WHILE EXAMPLE
int LIMIT = 5;
int count = 1;
Output:
do {
System.out.println(count); 1
count += 1; 2
3
} while (count <= LIMIT);
4
5
COMPARING WHILE AND DO-
WHILE
while loop Do-while loop

statement
condition
evaluated
true

true false condition

evaluated
statement
false
 THE FOR STATEMENT
 The for statement has the following syntax:

The initialization The statement is

Reserved
is executed once executed until the
word
before the loop begins condition becomes false

for (initialization; condition; increment)

statement;

The increment portion is executed at the

end of each iteration
The condition-statement-increment cycle is
executed repeatedly
 THE FOR STATEMENT
 A for loop is functionally equivalent to the following
while loop structure:

initialization;
while (condition) {
statement;
increment;
}
LOGIC OF A FOR LOOP
initialization

condition
evaluated

true false

statement

increment
 FOR EXAMPLE
int LIMIT = 5;
for (int count = 1; count <= LIMIT; count++) {
System.out.println(count);
}

Output:

1
2
3
4
5
THE FOR STATEMENT
 Each expression in the header of a for loop is optional

 If the initialization is left out, no initialization is

performed
 If the condition is left out, it is always considered to
be true, and therefore creates an infinite loop
 If the increment is left out, no increment operation is
performed

 Both semi-colons are always required in the for loop

header
 JUMP STATEMENTS-
BREAK
 The break statement has three uses:
 It terminates a statement sequence in a switch statement.
 It can be used to exit a loop.
 It can be used as a civilized form of goto.
 Civilized Form of Goto Statement
 break lable;

where label is the name of the block enclosing the break

statement.
• Labled break is used to transfer control from a set of nested
blocks.
 EXAMPLE-BREAK STATEMENT
class test_break1
{ public static void main(String args[])
{
boolean t =true;
first:{
second:{
third:{
System.out.println("Before the break.");
if(t)
break second;
System.out.println("This won't execute");
}
System.out.println("This won't execute");
}
System.out.println("This is after second block.");
}
}
}
 EXAMPLE-BREAK STATEMENT
class test_break2
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
one: for(int i=0;i<3;i++)
{
System.out.print("Pass: "+i+": ");
}

for(int j=0; j<100;j++)

{
if(j==10) break one; //Wrong
System.out.print(j+" ");
}
}
}
 JUMP STATEMENT-
CONTINUE
 Continue statement is used to run a loop but stop
processing the remainder of the code in its body for a
particular iteration.
 In while and do-while loop, a continue statement causes
control to be transferred directly to the conditional
expression. In a for loop, control goes first to the
iteration portion of the for statement and then to the
conditional expression.
 EXAMPLE-CONTINUE
STATEMENT
class test_continue Output:
{ public static void main(String args[]) 0
{ outer: for(int i=0; i<4;i++){ 01
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for(int j=0;j<4;j++) {
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if(j>i) {
System.out.println();
continue outer;
}
System.out.print(" "+(i*j));
}
}
System.out.println();
}
}
 JUMP STATEMENT-
RETURN
class test{
public static void main (String args[])
{
boolean t =true;
System.out.println(“Before the return”);
if(t) return;

System.out.println(“This won’t execute.”);

}
}
 NESTED LOOP
 Read and practice by yourself.