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THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition
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THE Java™ Programming Language, Fourth Edition

by Ken Arnold, James Gosling, David Holmes
August 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
20h 39m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Chapter 2. Classes and Objects

 

First things first, but not necessarily in that order.

 
 --Dr. Who, Meglos

The fundamental programming unit of the Java programming language is the class. Classes provide the structure for objects and the mechanisms to manufacture objects from a class definition. Classes define methods: collections of executable code that are the focus of computation and that manipulate the data stored in objects. Methods provide the behavior of the objects of a class. Although you can compute using only primitive types—integer, floating-point, and so on—almost any interesting program will create and manipulate objects.

Object-oriented programming strictly separates the notion of what is to be done from how it is done. “What” is described ...

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