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

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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[riot_morsel]

Watching this in comp class is a truly blissful thing thanks for making these videos

[ragore]

Thanks for taking your time to explain primitive data types.

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[freckly]

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[salimtayaadine]

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[seniorkid]

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[designwithgeet]

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[BennyAshurov]

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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 ^^

[NEnigma]

Omg you explain this so much better than my professors! Thank you!

[LisaCoppola]

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[nicolasjosino]

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!

[sruthikathiru]

Good explanation Mr. John. Actually I want to know about "how to handle primitive data types in java? " Please explain it .✨

[madamecoco]

thank you so much my java teacher is the worst teacher ever but thanks to you I can actually learn. Big help

[williamhallman]

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?

[_-_-_-_K]

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

[socaljusticewarrior]

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.