Boolean or If?

After a few tutorials I've finally started playing around with the GUI and I'm playing with taking user input and putting them into an equation. Right now my problem is trying give a Yes/No answer a value. At first I tried to make it a boolean but got utterly confused. So I turned it into a string and made an if statement that changes the value of a variable. The issue I am having right now is that whether or not I put yes or no for "Are you furthernig your education?" I will get the same output value.

Code :

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package sandbox;
 
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
class Play {
	public static void main(String[] args){
		String money =JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How often do you get paid in a week?");
		String edu =JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Are you furthering your education?");
		String pt =JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How often do you workout in a week?");
 
		int school;
 
		if (edu == "Yes"){
			school = 5;
		} else {school = 0;}
 
		int paid = Integer.parseInt(money);
		int excercise = Integer.parseInt(pt);
		int score = paid+excercise*3*school/2;
 
		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Your value is " + score, "Pass!", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
	}
}

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See: Common Java Mistakes: == operator or equals() method

After reading that, take a closer look at this line of code:

Code java:

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if (edu == "Yes")

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Ahhh okay. That was simple. If any other beginners out there are thinking about trying codeacademy.com just don't. They have me confused and using ridiculously wrong syntax.
Here's the code I ended up with.

Code :

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package sandbox;
 
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
class Play {
	public static void main(String[] args){
		String money =JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How often do you get paid in a week?");
		String edu =JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Are you furthering your education?");
		String pt =JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How often do you workout in a week?");
 
		int school;
		String eduAnswer = "Yes";
 
		if (edu.equals(eduAnswer)){
			school = 5;
		} else {school = 0;}
 
		int paid = Integer.parseInt(money);
		int excercise = Integer.parseInt(pt);
		int score = paid+excercise*3*school/2;
 
		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Your value is " + score, "Pass!", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
	}
}

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Thanks!

Just so it was mentioned also... .equalsIgnoreCase

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