We can both declare and assign a value to a variable in a single initialization statement.

Suppose we have these two lines:

// Declare a variable
int score;

// Initialize a variable
score = 0;

We can actually combine these two lines into a single line of code:

int score = 0;

This means we are declaring an integer called score and setting it equal to 0.

Note: We only need to declare a variable one time! And it is highly suggested to initialize a variable before using it later.