Learn what a variable is, how to declare it, what types of variables exist, and what scope and modifiers mean in Java, one of the most popular programming languages.

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For example, if Java infers a type to be a String, it will not assigned that type to an int or a float later on in the code. int x = 10; x = "ten"; // Error: violation of strong typing in Java When ...