Summary
Anyone who pops open a set of matryoska dolls has to be a bit disappointed to reach the smallest doll in the group. Ideally, advances in microengineering should enable Russian artisans to create ever-smaller and smaller dolls, until someone reaches the subatomic threshold and is declared the winner.
You have reached Java's smallest nesting doll today, but it shouldn't be a letdown. Using statements and expressions enables you to begin building effective methods, which make effective objects and classes possible.
Today you learned about creating variables and assigning values to them; using literals to represent numeric, character, and string values; and working with operators. Tomorrow you put these skills to use as you develop objects ...
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