CSE 215: Programming Language II Lab

Sec – 8, Faculty - MUO

Lab Officer: Tanzina Tazreen
Lab – 1
Part: 2

Objective:
• Printing Text
• Data Types / Variables,
• Type Casting
• Printing Data,
• User Input, Operators,
• Conditional Statements,
• Switch

Printing Text:

System.out.print("Hello World!");

System.out.println("Hello World!"); //print from a newline in every

statement

Data Types / Variables:

JAVA Data types are divided into two groups:

• Primitive data types - byte, short, int, long, float, double, Boolean and char

• Non-primitive data types - String, Arrays etc.

Java Type Casting:

two types of casting:

• Widening Casting (automatically) - converting a smaller type to a larger type size byte -> short -
> char -> int -> long -> float -> double
 int myInt = 9;

double myDouble = myInt;

• Narrowing Casting (manually) - converting a larger type to a smaller size type

double -> float -> long -> int -> char -> short -> byte

double myDouble = 9.78;

int myInt = (int) myDouble;

Printing out data

Java uses the + operator to perform string concatenation. That means, you can print out values of
variables within a System.out.println() call.

System.out.println(“myInteger contains = “ + myInteger);

Here, Java sees that the first operand of the + operator is a string. Then, it converts the rest of the
operands to string and concatenates them together to form one string. That string is printed out to
the console. The above line of code should print out the following line:

>>> myInteger contains = 5

The same is true for most other types of variables (at least the primitive datatypes).

System.out.println(“myFloat contains = “ + myFloat);

System.out.println(“myChar contains = “ + myChar);

You can chain together multiple variables and strings as well.

System.out.println(“myDouble contains = “ + myDouble + “ and myString contains =
“ + myString)
Taking User Input

Program 1: Taking an integer as user input and printing the obtained value out to the console

The above program has a lot going on. Let’s break it down:
Line 1: We import the built-in Scanner class from java.util package. There are a lot
of modules built into Java, similar to header files in the C programming language. Think of this as
analogous to importing a header file in C programming language.

Line 5: This will become clearer when we cover Object Oriented Programming concepts.
However, the main thing to know here is that we are instantiating an object which is of type
Scanner. This will enable us to access the methods available to the Scanner class.

Line 7: We print out a prompt for the user so that s/he can type an input integer.

Line 8: We use one of the methods of the Scanner class, nextInt() , to obtain the next

integer the user enters to the console.

To take various variables as input, you need to use the appropriate methods for it. Table 1
summarizes the appropriate methods.

Datatype Method Name

Integer/int nextInt()

Double/double nextDouble()

Float/float nextFloat()

String nextLine() for strings with spaces,

next() for words

Boolean/boolean nextBoolean()

Table 1: Data Types and their corresponding method in Scanner class for user input.

Boolean Expressions:

Boolean Expressions are formed using boolean operators and boolean values comparison operators.

Comparison Operators Boolean Operators

Operator Name Operator Name

== Equal to ! NOT

!= Not equal to && AND (both)

< Less than || OR (any one or both)

> Greater than ^ Exclusive OR (any one but not both)

<= Less than or equal to

>= Greater than or equal to

Table 1: Types of Comparison and Boolean operators
Conditional statements

Based on some condition, execute a select block of code.

if-else switch case

Standard conditional statement Useful if your code turns out to have multiple
“else if” clauses with equal to comparison

if (condition) { switch (conditionVar) { case 1: //

// code code break; case 2: //
} else { code break; case n:
// code
} if // code
(condition1) { break;
// code
} else if (condition2) { // code default: // code
} else if (condition3) { break;
// code
}
} ... else if (conditionN) {
// code }
else {
// code
}

Table 2: Types of if-else statements.

Task:
1. Write a program that takes an integer and determines if it’s odd or even. Use switch cases to produce
result.

2. Write a program that takes an integer and determines if it’s prime or not. A number is prime if it is
divisible by 1 and itself only, i.e. 2, 3, 11, 37 etc.

3. Consider the given BMI ranges

If your BMI is:

below 18.5 – you're “underweight” between
18.5 and 24.9 – you're “healthy” between 25
and 29.9 – you're “overweight” between 30
and 39.9 – you're “obese”
Write a program that takes a decimal value as input from the user. Then print the quoted words above
based on the range.
(a) Use if-else if-else
(b) Use ternary operator

4. Take a year as user input. Then print it check if it’s a leap year or not.
Note: A leap year must satisfy any or both of the following conditions:
Divisible by 400
Divisible by 4 and not divisible by 100
Sample output:
2015: false