1.2. Classes
One of the fundamental ways in which we handle complexity is abstractions. An abstraction denotes the essential properties and behaviors of an object that differentiate it from other objects. The essence of OOP is modelling abstractions, using classes and objects. The hard part in this endeavour is finding the right abstractions.
A class denotes a category of objects, and acts as a blueprint for creating such objects. A class models an abstraction by defining the properties and behaviors for the objects representing the abstraction. An object exhibits the properties and behaviors defined by its class. The properties of an object of a class are also called attributes, and are defined by fields in Java. A field in a class definition ...
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