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Java, A Beginner's Guide, 5th Edition, 5th Edition
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Java, A Beginner's Guide, 5th Edition, 5th Edition

by Herbert Schildt
September 2011
Beginner
650 pages
15h 47m
English
McGraw Hill Computing
Content preview from Java, A Beginner's Guide, 5th Edition, 5th Edition

Chapter 6A Closer Look at Methods and Classes

Key Skills & Concepts

Image Control access to members

Image Pass objects to a method

Image Return objects from a method

Image Overload methods

Image Overload constructors

Use recursion

Apply static

Use inner classes

Use varargs ...

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