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| a collection of objects talking to other objects by invoking each other's methods. |
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| A template or blueprint that describes the kinds of state and behavior that objects of its type support |
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| instance of the class. made with the keyword 'new'. Objects will have its won state, and access to all of the behaviors defined by its class |
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| State (instance variables) |
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| Each object or instance of a class will have its own unique set of instance variables as defined in the class. Collectively, the values assigned to an object's instance variables make up the object's state |
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| Methods are where the class' logic is stored. Methods are where algorithms get executed, and data gets manipulated |
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names of the classes, variables, and methods.
There are conventions for naming methods and variables |
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Conventions of
writing a variablename |
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camelCase -- the first letter of the first word letter will be lower case and the first letter of the second word will be upper case or each word separated by underscore
Example: numberOfCards
number_of_cards |
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| Convention for naming a Class |
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| Class starts with the uppercase |
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| Conventions for naming methods |
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camelCase again
calculateAverageForClass() |
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Java has set of built-in keywords. Example: new, Class, void, etc.
These keywords cannot be used as identifiers |
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