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Java Programming for Beginners

You're reading from   Java Programming for Beginners Learn the fundamentals of programming with Java

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788296298
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff SkillSprints Inc., Mark Lassoff
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Creating classes and objects

In this section, you'll take the first real steps of learning object-oriented programming in Java. So I guess the first question to ask is, "What is object-oriented programming?" Well, at a high level, object-oriented programming is the creation of objects, discrete code, and logic entities that are unique and separate from each other but can have complicated relationships.

When we write object-oriented code, we begin to deal with and think about the code as though it were a collection of physical pieces or objects. Java is by its very nature an object-oriented language. So, if you've been learning Java, at the very least, you've been using objects without realizing it.

To see the power of object-oriented programming, take a look at the following program (GettingObjectOriented.java):

package gettingobjectoriented; 
 
import...
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