Java™ for Programmers: Deitel

3. Introduction to Classes and Objects

Objectives

In this chapter you’ll learn:

• What classes, objects, methods and instance variables are.

• How to declare a class and use it to create an object.

• How to declare methods in a class to implement the class’s behaviors.

• How to declare instance variables in a class to implement the class’s attributes.

• How to call an object’s methods to make those methods perform their tasks.

• The differences between instance variables of a class and local variables of a method.

• How to use a constructor to ensure that an object’s data is initialized when the object is created.

• The differences between primitive and reference types.

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