Summary

This chapter covered a wide variety of topics, including dozens of Java operators, along with numerous control flow statements. Many of these operators and statements may have been new to you.

It is important that you understand how to use all of the required Java operators covered in this chapter and know how operator precedence influences the way a particular expression is interpreted. There will likely be numerous questions on the exam that appear to test one thing, such as StringBuilder or exception handling, when in fact the answer is related to the misuse of a particular operator that causes the application to fail to compile. When you see an operator on the exam, always check that the appropriate data types are used and that they match each other where applicable.

For statements, this chapter covered two types of control structures: decision-making controls structures, including if-then, if-then-else, and switch statements, as well as repetition control structures including...