• Expressions that can be made into statements
• Declaration statements

Statements and blocks

• Two basic statements - expression statements, declaration statements.
• Expression statements - such as i++ -have a semi-colon at the end.

Expressions that can be made into statements

• Assignment: those that contain =
• Prefix or postfix forms of ++ and -
• Methods calls.
• Object creation statements (new operator).

Declaration statements

• Declare a variable and initialize it to a value.
• Can appear anywhere inside a block.
• Local variables exist only as long as the block containing their code is executing.
• Braces group zero or more statements into a block.