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Sams Teach Yourself Java™ in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition
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Sams Teach Yourself Java™ in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition

by Rogers Cadenhead
October 2011
Beginner
432 pages
10h 18m
English
Sams
Content preview from Sams Teach Yourself Java™ in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition

Hour 11. Describing What Your Object Is Like

What You’ll Learn in This Hour:

• Creating variables for an object or class

• Using methods with objects and classes

• Calling a method and returning a value

• Creating constructors

• Sending arguments to a method

• Using this to refer to an object

• Creating new objects

As you learned during last hour’s introduction to object-oriented programming (OOP), an object is a way of organizing a program so that it has everything it needs to accomplish a task. Objects consist of attributes and behavior.

Attributes are the information stored within an object. They can be variables such as integers, characters, and Boolean values, or objects such as String and Calendar objects. Behavior is the groups of statements ...

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