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.

How to write your first Java program. The first non-trivial Java program I ever wrote was a number guessing game, and it gave me a good idea of how variables, loops and conditional statements work. I ...

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 ...