# AP Computer Science A : Assertions

## Example Questions

### Example Question #1 : Assertions

Which of the following code excerpts would output "10"?

int num = 5;
num = (num > 0) ? 10: 11;
System.out.println(num);

None of the answers are correct.

int num = 10;
num = (num > 0) ? 11: 12;
System.out.println(num);
int num = 5;
num = (num > 0) ? 11: 10;
System.out.println(num);
int num = 5;
num = (num < 0) ? 10: 11;
System.out.println(num);
int num = 5;
num = (num > 0) ? 10: 11;
System.out.println(num);
Explanation:

Each bit of code has something similar to this:

num = (boolean statement) ? X : Y;

The bit at the end with the ? and : is called a ternary operator. A ternary operator is a way of condensing an if-else statement. A ternary operator works like this:

<boolean statement> ? <do this if true> : <do this if false>

The correct answer is

int num = 5;
num = (num > 0) ? 10: 11;
System.out.println(num);

Therefore, the ternary operator portion of code, when converted to an if-else, looks like this:

if (num > 0) {
num = 10;
else {
num = 11;
}

Because num is 5, which is greater than 0, it would go into the if, so num would then get 10. Then, num gets printed, which means 10 gets printed (the correct answer).

### Example Question #1 : Assertions

True or False.

The assertion in this code snippet is to prevent users from inputting bad data.

public class UserInput {

int userInput;

public static void main(String[] args) {

assertTrue(isInteger(args[0]));

userInput = args[0];

userInput = 25 - userInput;

}

}

False

True