Comment about your "comment" markers -- the compiler only requires /* before and */ after comments; the second star on the first line and the star on every line thereafter are just a convention some programmers like because it makes it easier to tell apart comment lines from code. There are, of course, those who dislike the extra characters. For example, I prefer the // style comments for 1 or 2 line comments, and I only use the leading * if it's actually a comment (as opposed to commented out code).

Oh, and the ; ends any kind of statement, not just assignments. Think of it like the end of the line in Python.