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By the end of this chapter students should be able to:
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explain the meaning of the term object-oriented;
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explain and distinguish between the terms class and object;
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create objects in Java;
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call the methods of an object;
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use a number of methods of the String class;
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create and use arrays of objects;
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create an ArrayLis t and make use of the add and get methods of this class.
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A list of a method’s inputs and outputs is often referred to as the method’s interface—though this should not be confused with the user interface, the meaning of which we described in the first chapter.
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Charatan, Q., Kans, A. (2019). Classes and Objects. In: Java in Two Semesters. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99420-8_7
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