What is the correct way to declare a boolean variable in Java?

Question

I have just started learning Java. In the online course I am following, I am asked to try the following code:

String email1 = \"meme@me.coh\";
String email2 = \"         


        

Answer 1

Not only there is no need to declare it as false first, I would add few other improvements:

• use boolean instead of Boolean (which can also be null for no reason)

• assign during declaration:

  boolean isMatch = email1.equals(email2);
  

• ...and use final keyword if you can:

  final boolean isMatch = email1.equals(email2);
  

Last but not least:

if (isMatch == true)

can be expressed as:

if (isMatch)

which renders the isMatch flag not that useful, inlining it might not hurt readability. I suggest looking for some better courses/tutorials out there...