Primitives Data Types In Java - All the Primitives And What They Do

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What are all the Primitive data types in Java, and what are they used for? We'll talk about all 8 Java primitive types, what you can store in them, and how to create them.
This is a beginner friendly Java coding lesson tutorial, where we'll talk about all 8 primitive data types.
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Thanks for taking your time to explain primitive data types.

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[@eyekona]

Char is also a whole number data type and stores the ascii value, so you can do calculations with it. That comes in handy lots of times where I work ^^

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I'm so glad it's helpful, thank you! I just added a set of lessons on the Collections framework last night, and always working on more!

[@nicolasjosino1421]

Great video John! I've been watching a whole bunch of your tutorials as I aspire to become a Java backend engineer, and they've been really helpful! About chars, I found them to be a lot useful when looping through strings in "for each" statements, do you know a better way to do so? Thanks again for the great content!

[@daveqr]

So this doesn't exactly answer your question, but one interesting use of looping with chars is when you need to do something alphabetically, like this example from a chess program: private static Stream generateAllSquares() { final List squares = new ArrayList(); for (char file = 'a'; file

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I came back to this video because I just watched a video of a guy doing a 6 billion point combo in Tony Hawk Pro Skater 4. When the game finally tallied it up, it didn't get past 1.6 billion even though the combo did, in fact, add up to 6 billion. So the programmers must have used int instead of long. If only they could have foreseen the jump in human evolution from 2003 to now. No one was capable of such things back then.

[@soniablanche5672]

the byte type is pretty useful to handle binary data byte by byte

[@_-_-_-_K]

Do you have any videos that talk about non-primitive data types?

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Great video but I would like 1.5 or 2 times slower :) - But very good explained

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[@chrisred87]

Personally I feel lower case L is 'wrong' solely because at a glance it could be easily mistaken for a 1. I think Upper case is clearer.

[@williamhallman2760]

I am taking a web design class and in my assessment I have to have 2 char's in a row. The first char works. But I can't seem to get the second char to work correctly? What am I doing wrong?

[@ceydaavc4978]

is there any video that ı can find class as data type? ı mean you create public person mother inside the person class and ı dont understand

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[@AmanRajput-ku5qe]

If we want to store larger value than long data type( > 9,223,372,036,854,775,807) then , how we can store it ?

[@CodingWithJohn]

Check out BigInteger: docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/math/BigInteger.html

[@griselortiz8364]

if I were to use "boolean" is there a way to have the "user" input "TRUE or FALSE" when I run the program for the variable?

[@sc1ss0r1ng]

Do you mean, if you use a Scanner to read the user input and decide if they type 'true' or 'false' ? A little example I made of that scenario here just using the Main class for simplicity's sake (you have to import the scanner for this to work): ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- package (name of your package) import java.util.Scanner; public class Main{ public static void main(String[] args){ checkForUserInputWithBoolean(); } public static void checkForUserInputWithBoolean() { Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Are you a human? Answer 'true or false' "); byte checker = 0; while (checker == 0) { try { boolean userAnswer = scanner.nextBoolean(); if (userAnswer == true) { System.out.println("You are a human being"); checker = 2; } else if (userAnswer == false) { System.out.println("You are not a human being "); checker = 1; checkForUserInputWithBoolean(); } else{ checker = 0; } } catch (Exception e) { System.out.println("Wrong input, must be true or false "); checker = 1; checkForUserInputWithBoolean(); } } } }

[@amnfox]

I don't understand how a programmer decides which type to use. Should I just primarily use int? If I use int for a small amount of data am I misusing the type?

[@megoshmego]

no. but if your number exceeds 2 billion you need to use a long. people dont just always use long bc it takes more time to run.

[@altairophelia9602]

Can i do this on Android using java N-IDE?

[@4ntoondev534]

I prefer capital 'L' for longs, l looks too much like 1 in certain fonts (like yours :))

[@69k_gold]

Using lowercase L is evil, considering 1 and lowercase L look the exact same

[@ahmadiyad2860]

annotations in java

[@M-Theresa]

My son Nathan asked me to comment here. He is saying that boolean data type is not there in Scratch coding language.

[@CodingWithJohn]

Interesting, thanks Nathan! I haven't used Scratch yet but I've heard a lot about it, I'll see if I can learn something about it and see if there's a boolean equivalent in Scratch.

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@@CodingWithJohn Hey John. Thanks for the response. Nathan was excited when I told him "Hey John replied" :-) Btw I watch your videos. Love the way you explain. Great pronunciation, intonation, clarity and no unnecessary details. Waiting for more .. :-)

[@anandss9647]

You guys call it "char" but when it is character, you call it is as "karacter". May i know the logic behind this 🤦

[@timbo2legit2quit]

Char is an actual word. It's the black stuff when you burn something. Char is pretty unique because most words that start with 'cha' has a 'k' sound.

[@tabnaka]

not logic just a intricacy of the English language

[@trollermcgeetv]

@@timbo2legit2quit like a charred marshmallow for example

[@CowsinReal]

it's million billion trillion quadrillion quintillion sextillion septillion octillion etc

[@walkingreader]

You might want to have done this in your first 10 videos, and not around the 40th.

[@pickashoe7870]

but i need a jillion datatype

[@CodingWithJohn]

Hmmmmmm try BigInteger. Not a primitive, but essentially only limited to the amount of memory you have.

[@jinxedboo6031]

10lbs of... do I actually know what tho ? ;)

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My bank account is measured in byte.

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