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Trail: Learning the Java Language
Lesson: Language Basics
Language Basics
Variables
Primitive Data Types
Arrays
Summary of Variables
Questions and Exercises
Operators
Assignment, Arithmetic, and Unary Operators
Equality, Relational, and Conditional Operators
Bitwise and Bit Shift Operators
Summary of Operators
Questions and Exercises
Expressions, Statements, and Blocks
Questions and Exercises
Control Flow Statements
The if-then and if-then-else Statements
The switch Statement
The while and do-while Statements
The for Statement
Branching Statements
Summary of Control Flow Statements
Questions and Exercises
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Questions and Exercises: Expressions, Statements, and Blocks

### Questions

> 1. Operators may be used in building ___, which compute values.

> 2. Expressions are the core components of ___.

> 3. Statements may be grouped into ___.

> 4. The following code snippet is an example of a ___ expression.

>    >      1 * 2 * 3

> 5. Statements are roughly equivalent to sentences in natural languages, but instead of ending with a period, a statement ends with a ___.

> 6. A block is a group of zero or more statements between balanced ___ and can be used anywhere a single statement is allowed.

### Exercises

> Identify the following kinds of expression statements:
> - `aValue = 8933.234;`
> - `aValue++;`
> - `System.out.println("Hello World!");`
> - `Bicycle myBike = new Bicycle();`

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