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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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25.8 Declaring Methods

[Note: This section may be read after studying Chapter 6, Methods: A Deeper Look, and the preceding portions of Chapter 25.]

You can use JShell to prototype methods. For example, let’s assume we’d like to write code that displays the cubes of the values from 1 through 10. For the purpose of this discussion, we’re going to define two methods:

  • Method displayCubes will iterate 10 times, calling method cube each time.

  • Method cube will receive one int value and return the cube of that value.

25.8.1 Forward Referencing an Undeclared Method—Declaring Method displayCubes

Let’s begin with method displayCubes. Start a new JShell session or /reset the current one, then enter the following method declaration:

void displayCubes() ...
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