Java Illuminated, 5th Edition

CHAPTER REVIEW

5.13 Chapter Summary

• Java provides equality, relational, and logical operators to evaluate a condition, and selection statements to choose which instructions to execute based on whether a condition evaluates to true or false.

• The equality operators (==, !=) are used to test whether two operands are equal. The operands are expressions that evaluate to a primitive numeric or boolean type or an object reference.

• The relational operators (<, <=, >, >=) compare the values of two operands that are expressions that evaluate to a primitive numeric type.

• The logical operators (!, &&, and ||) take boolean expressions as operands. The logical NOT (!) takes one operand, and inverts its value, changing true to false and false to true ...