Chapter 6. Creating Classes
If you're coming to Java from another programming language, you might be going through a class struggle. The term “class” seems synonymous to the term “program,” but you could be uncertain of the relationship between the two.
In Java, a program is made up of a main class and any other classes that are needed to support the main class. These support classes include any of those in Java's class library you might need (such as String, Math, and the like).
Today you go to the head of the class in terms of what you know on the subject. You create classes and read about each of the following:
The parts of a class definition
The creation and use of instance variables
The creation and use of methods
The
main()method used in Java ...
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