Tutorial: Classes and Objects
With the knowledge you now have of the basics of the Java programming language, you can learn to write your own classes. In this lesson, you will find information about defining your own classes, including declaring member variables, methods, and constructors.
You will learn to use your classes to create objects, and how to use the objects you create.
This lesson also covers nesting classes within other classes, and enumerations
Classes
This section shows you the anatomy of a class, and how to declare fields, methods, and constructors.Objects
This section covers creating and using objects. You will learn how to instantiate an object, and, once instantiated, how to use thedot
operator to access the object's instance variables and methods.
More on Classes
This section covers more aspects of classes that depend on using object references and thedot
operator that you learned about in the preceding section: returning values from methods, the this
keyword, class vs. instance members, and access control.