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7. Classes

Kishori Sharan1 

(1)Montgomery, Alabama, USA

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • What classes are in Java

  • How to declare classes in Java

  • How to declare class members such as fields

  • How to create objects of a class

  • How to declare import statements in a compilation unit

What Is a Class?

Classes are the basic units of programming in the object-oriented paradigm. In Chapter 3, you looked at some elementary aspects of a class in Java, for example, using the class keyword to declare a class, declaring the main() method to run a class, etc. This chapter explains how to declare and use a class in detail.

Let’s start with a simple example of ...

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