Methods setCourseName and getCourseName
Method setCourseName
(lines 10–13) does not return any data when it completes its task, so its return type is void
. The method receives one parameter—name
—which represents the course name that will be passed to the method as an argument. Line 12 assigns name
to instance variable courseName
.
Method getCourseName
(lines 16–19) returns a particular GradeBook
object’s courseName
. The method has an empty parameter list, so it does not require additional information to perform its task. The method specifies that it returns a String
—this is the method’s return type. When a method that specifies a return type other than void
is called and completes its task, the method returns a result to its calling method. For ...
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