Head First Java_Study Notes_Chapter 4 How Objects Behave

1. Objects have state and behavior

A class describes what an object knows and what an object does.

Every object of a type can have different instance variable values.

A method uses parameters. A caller passes arguments. 

Mark instance variables private, Mark getters and setters public.

class GoodDog {
	private int size;
	
	public int getsize()
	{
		return size;
	}
	
	public void setsize(int s)
	{
		size = s;
	}
	
	void bark()
	{
		if (size > 60)
			System.out.println("W");
		else if (size > 14)
			System.out.println("R");
		else
			System.out.println("Y");
	}
}

class GoodDogTestDrive{
	public static void main(String[] args){
		GoodDog dog1 = new GoodDog();
		GoodDog dog2 = new GoodDog();
		GoodDog dog3 = new GoodDog();
		dog1.setsize(88);
		dog2.setsize(20);
		dog3.setsize(2);
		dog1.bark();
		dog2.bark();
		dog3.bark();
	}
}

2.

Instance variables always have a default value. Number primitives get 0, bolleans get false, and object reference variables get null.

But local variables do not get a default value.

Instance variables are declared inside a class but not within a method. Local variables are declared within a method.

Since this chapters are pretty easy, I'm not gonna spend too much time on these chapters.