We have so far presented the basic primitive types (say, boolean, int and long, float and double) of Java and explained how to build homogeneous arrays of these primitive types. Objects are useful for two main reasons:
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(1) Objects allow one to encapsulate and structure a set of data,
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(2) Objects provide a set of functions called methods acting on the encapsulated data.
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Nielsen, F. (2009). Objects and Strings. In: A Concise and Practical Introduction to Programming Algorithms in Java. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-339-6_5
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