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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition
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Java How to Program, Early Objects, 11th Edition

by Paul J. Deitel, Harvey Deitel
June 2017
Beginner
1296 pages
69h 23m
English
Pearson
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8.17 Wrap-Up

In this chapter, we presented additional class concepts. The Time class case study showed a complete class declaration consisting of private data, overloaded public constructors for initialization flexibility, set and get methods for manipulating the class’s data, and methods that returned String representations of a Time object in two different formats. You also learned that every class can declare a toString method that returns a String representation of an object of the class and that method toString can be called implicitly whenever an object of a class appears in the code where a String is expected. We showed how to throw an exception to indicate that a problem has occurred.

You learned that the this reference is used implicitly ...

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ISBN: 9780134751962