Course Description
Explore the essential elements of working with Java objects, classes, references, and methods.
Learning Objectives
Java SE 11: Objects & Classes
- list the characteristics of a Java object
- define Java object components and properties
- create object instances and use their fields and methods in Java
- describe the use of object references in Java
- work with different references to objects in Java
- describe how objects are stored in memory in Java
- work with multiple references pointing to the same object in Java
- describe how an array of objects is stored in memory in Java
- describe the basic form of a method and a constructor in Java
- create a class that implements a constructor in Java
- declare methods that have parameters in Java
- implement methods that return values of a specified return type in Java
- create methods that make use of method overloading in Java
- distinguish between local and instance variables in Java
- create overloaded methods that return values to the caller in Java