Vocabulary Terms

Class

a description of a kind of object.

Constructor method

a special method of a class or structure in object-orientedprogramming that initializes an object of that type

Dot notation

Used between an object reference or class reference and a member of that class

import statement

allows java code to use classes within a package without using their fully qualified names

Method call

asks to execute a particular method, with some inputs if necessary

Modularity

the degree to which a system's components may be separated and recombined

Object

Data and methods defining one instance of a class

Object reference

describes the location of an object in memory

Package

group of related classes, often put into a collection

String

traditionally a sequence of characters, either as a literal constant or as some kind of variable

Wrapper class

puts primitive data inside an immutable object

Object Data