Importance of the this keyword

There is one more keyword in Java that is just like the super keyword: this. In this section, we will take a look at the this keyword.

Let's explain the this keyword with an example. Create a class named thisDemo and declare a variable, a, and assign the value 2 to it. We define a getData() method in its class, declare the a variable inside it, and assign the value 3 to it. We also add a print statement in it. The code will look as follows:

package coreJava;public class thisDemo{    int a= 2;    public void getData()    {        int a= 3;        System.out.println(a);    }

As we can see, the value of a is 2 in the entire class, but in one specific method, getData(), we want the value of the variable to be 3. In this code, we want to ...

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