Java: Assignment Statment

The assignment statement:

• assigns a value to a variable
• is used to assign a memory location to a variable
• you can tell the assignment statement by the single equal sign =
• the value and the variable must be of the same data type
• the variable on the left is being changed to the value on the left
• it is often confused with the comparison operator == which will compare two values and check to see if they are the same

Examples: