Creating Methods
As you learned on Day 4, "Working with Objects," methods define an object's behavior—anything that happens when the object is created and the various tasks the object can perform during its lifetime.
This section introduces method definition and how methods work. Tomorrow's lesson has more detail about advanced things you can do with methods.
Defining Methods
Method definitions have four basic parts:
The name of the method
A list of parameters
The type of object or primitive type returned by the method
The body of the method
The first two parts of the method definition form what's called the method's signature.
Note
To keep things simpler today, two optional parts of the method definition have been left out: a modifier, such as ...
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