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Interactive Object-Oriented Programming in Java: Learn and Test Your Programming Skills
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Interactive Object-Oriented Programming in Java: Learn and Test Your Programming Skills

by Vaskaran Sarcar
December 2019
Beginner to intermediate
604 pages
10h 9m
English
Apress
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V. SarcarInteractive Object-Oriented Programming in Javahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5404-2_8

8. Understanding Class Variables and Class Methods

Vaskaran Sarcar1 
(1)
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
 

Sometimes developers do not want to operate through instances of a type. Instead, they prefer to work on the type itself. The concept of class variables or class methods appears in these scenarios. They are commonly known as static variables or static methods .

Let’s consider a case where you want a variable to be shared among all objects of a class regardless of how many objects are created from the class. Other times, you may also want to maintain a single copy to handle some specific scenarios; for example, when you maintain ...

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