What happens FIRST when the following statement executes?

value = 2*3 ;

Answer:

FIRST, do the multiplication 2*3 to get the value 6.

Two Steps

FIRST, do the multiplication 2*3 to get the value 6.

NEXT, put the result of the calculation into the "litte box of memory" used for the variable value:

It will really, really help you to think carefully about these two steps. Sometimes even second year computer science majors get confused about this and write buggy code.

QUESTION 13:

What will this program fragment write?

value = 2*3;
System.out.println( "value holds: " + value );