Hour 10. Declaring Methods in an Interface File

What You’ll Learn in This Hour

Examining the difference between class and instance methods

Naming methods properly

Returning complex data structures as method results

Working with Methods in a Class

As you have seen in the previous hours of this part, you declare classes which can contain instance variables and declared properties in addition to the information in the class declaration itself. The other major component of a class is its methods. Methods are the messages to which instances of the class (or, in some cases, the class itself) respond. They provide the functionality for the class.

In this hour, you learn how to declare and define your classes. In order to help you create useful ...

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