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We can use the car type to store a single character.

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So in this lesson, you're going to use the card type two story single character and you're also going

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to learn when to use car versus drink.

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First, I'll need you to make a new class by yourself inside Section two workspace, make a new file

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named form Java and the form class must have the main method.

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CA is short for a character, as I mentioned earlier, a car variable can only store one character like

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A, B or C, and so to define a car variable, you need to write the variable type car, the variable

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name, which in this case is gender.

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And the character value, which is wrapped in single quotes.

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Pay close attention to the single quotes.

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Single quotes are for car values.

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Don't confuse them with double quotes.

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Double quotes are for string values.

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Remember that for your next quiz.

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All right.

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So inside your code, make a car variable named a gender car gender and set it equal to f so single

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quotes for a character value and f now print it system dot out.

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Dot print line gender.

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We're going to compile our code.

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And run it.

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And that's it, there's really nothing else to a car variable, it can only store one character and

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one character, only the gender variable stores the character F, which we then printed.

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You can join a string value with a car value using the plus symbol.

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So far, using the plus symbol, you connected a number to a string and as a result, the number blended

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into the string.

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If you remember in the last lesson and you can do the same thing with characters.

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This involves a string, the plus icon and a character, and as a result, the character blends into

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the string, forming a more complete sentence.

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We can apply this in our code, so instead of just printing boring old F will print the string gender.

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Leave some white space and connect the string to your character value.

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All right, compile the code using job C form dot Java and run it Java form.

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Sweet Java embeds the character inside the string and prints it.

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You might be asking, why not always use string?

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What's the point of a car variable if it can only store one character?

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If you actually try to store more than one character inside a car variable, Java would throw an error.

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Try it out.

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I'm going to try to store car name is equal to and in single code.

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Since we're using a car, we'll have to put Jenah.

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I already see that there's an Arab let's compile the code anyway, Gervasi form Java and attempting

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to compile the code tells me there's an error in line four of my code.

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So what I'm going to do actually is store all of these values into string variables, change both types

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to string.

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And you remember that string values are enclosed in double quotes.

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All right, we're going to print the name.

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System dart out.

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Print line.

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Name.

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Colon leaf, some white space and connect the string to the string value inside named.

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All right, Kapalua code.

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Run it and everything works out.

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So string is more flexible.

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Why not always use it?

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The answer is memory and performance.

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Don't let these two words frighten you.

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Just know this in terms of memory.

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Card takes up less memory in terms of performance cars faster car is a primitive data type where a string

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is an object.

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We'll talk more about objects later.

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But for now, when it's possible to use car use car, especially when you're OK, it's really big.

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These types of considerations can really make a difference in how well your app performs.

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Smack our code will say CA gender is equal to F instead.

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We can narrow this down to one rule and it's simple, really use car to store a single character and

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you string to store a larger text.

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In this lesson, you used a car variable to story single character, a car variable can only store one

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character.

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You can also join a string value with a car value.

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And finally, you learn to use car to store single characters and use string to store text.