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The previous chapter presented how to write programs using only System.out.println and System.out.print statements. This chapter introduces how to store, modify, and retrieve information. The medium in which information is stored is called data.
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The term data is used for both singular and plural forms. The original singular form of “data” is “datum”, but this is rarely used nowadays.
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Technically, a variable name can start with the underscore or the dollar sign, but the convention is to start a variable name with a lowercase letter.
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Since int is the data type for specifying the position of a character letter in a character sequence, the limit on the length is 231 − 1.
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Ogihara, M. (2018). Using Data for Computation. In: Fundamentals of Java Programming. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89491-1_2
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