Operator precedence, increment/decrement, compound assignment with implicit casts

Operator precedence decides which operators bind first when an expression has no parentheses. From highest to lowest, the order you need is: postfix (x++, x--), then unary and prefix (++x, --x, +, -, !, ~, casts), then multiplicative (*, /, %), additive (+, -), shifts (<<, >>, >>>), relational (<, >, <=, >=, instanceof), equality (==, !=), then the bitwise and logical &, ^ and | in that order, then the short-circuit && and ||, the ternary ?:, and finally assignment operators (=, += and so on). Operands are still evaluated left to right, even when precedence groups them differently.