Why can't I do assignment outside a method?

Question

If I try to assign a value to a variable in a class, but outside a method I get an error.

class one{
 Integer b;
 b=Integer.valueOf(2);
}

b

Answer 1

This is the way java works, you cannot add non-declaration code (sorry i don't know the correct term) inside the class, that code should be inside methods.