Friday, November 18, 2011

Class Definition » Defining Class

What Is a Java Class?
Classes are the fundamental building blocks of a Java program. You can define an Employee
class as follows:
class Employee {
  int age;

  double salary;
}
  1. By convention, class names capitalize the initial of each word.
  2. For example: Employee, Boss, DateUtility, PostOffice, RegularRateCalculator.
  3. This type of naming convention is known as Pascal naming convention.
  4. The other convention, the camel naming convention, capitalize the initial of each word, except the first word.
  5. Method and field names use the camel naming convention.

Fields
  1. Fields are variables.
  2. They can be primitives or references to objects.
For example, the Employee class has two fields, age and salary.
public class Employee{
  int age;
  int salary

}
  1. Field names should follow the camel naming convention.
  2. The initial of each word in the field, except for the first word, is written with a capital letter.
  3. For example: age, maxAge, address, validAddress, numberOfRows.
 Defining Classes: A class has fields and methods

public class MainClass {
  private int aField;

  public void aMethod() {

  }
}


Creating Objects of a Class
class Sphere {
  double radius; // Radius of a sphere

  Sphere() {

  }

  // Class constructor
  Sphere(double theRadius) {
    radius = theRadius; // Set the radius

  }

}

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] arg){
    Sphere sp = new Sphere();
    
  }

}

 Checking whether the object referenced was of type String

class Animal {
  public Animal(String aType) {
    type = aType;
  }
  public String toString() {
    return "This is a " + type;
  }
  private String type;
}
public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] a) {
    Animal pet = new Animal("a");
    if (pet.getClass() == Animal.class) {
      System.out.println("it is an animal!");
    }
  }
}
it is an animal!

Class declaration with one method

public class MainClass
{
   public static void mainString args[] )
   
      GradeBook myGradeBook = new GradeBook()

      myGradeBook.displayMessage()
   }
}

class GradeBook
{
   public void displayMessage()
   {
      System.out.println"Welcome to the Grade Book!" );
   }

}
Welcome to the Grade Book!

Class declaration with a method that has a parameter

public class MainClass
{
   public static void mainString args[] )
   
      GradeBook myGradeBook = new GradeBook()

      String courseName = "Java ";
      myGradeBook.displayMessagecourseName );
   }

}

class GradeBook
{
   public void displayMessageString courseName )
   {
      System.out.printf"Welcome to the grade book for\n%s!\n"
         courseName );
   }

}
Welcome to the grade book for
Java !

 Class that contains a String instance variable and methods
to set and get its value

public class MainClass
{
   public static void mainString args[] )
   
GradeBook myGradeBook = new GradeBook()

System.out.printf"Initial course name is: %s\n\n",myGradeBook.getCourseName() );

      String theName = "Java";
      myGradeBook.setCourseNametheName )// set the course name

      myGradeBook.displayMessage();
   }


class GradeBook
{
   private String courseName; // course name for this GradeBook

   // method to set the course name
   public void setCourseNameString name )
   {
      courseName = name; // store the course name
   }

   // method to retrieve the course name
   public String getCourseName()
   {
      return courseName;
   }

   // display a welcome message to the GradeBook user
   public void displayMessage()
   {
      System.out.printf"Welcome to the grade book for\n%s!\n"
         getCourseName() );
   }

}
Initial course name is: null

Welcome to the grade book for
Java!

 Class with a constructor to initialize instance variables

public class MainClass
{
   public static void mainString args[] ) 
   {
      Account account1 = new Account50.00 )// create Account object
      Account account2 = new Account-7.53 )// create Account object

      System.out.printf"account1 balance: $%.2f\n", account1.getBalance() );
      System.out.printf"account2 balance: $%.2f\n\n", account2.getBalance() );
      
      double depositAmount; // deposit amount read from user

      depositAmount = 10.10;
      account1.creditdepositAmount )// add to account1 balance

      System.out.printf"account1 balance: $%.2f\n", account1.getBalance() );
      System.out.printf"account2 balance: $%.2f\n\n", account2.getBalance() );

      depositAmount = 12.12
      account2.creditdepositAmount )// add to account2 balance

      System.out.printf"account1 balance: $%.2f\n", account1.getBalance() );
      System.out.printf"account2 balance: $%.2f\n", account2.getBalance() );
   }

}

class Account
{   
   private double balance; // instance variable that stores the balance

   // constructor  
   public Accountdouble initialBalance )
   {
      if initialBalance > 0.0 
         balance = initialBalance; 
   }

   public void creditdouble amount )
   {      
      balance = balance + amount;
   }

   public double getBalance()
   {
      return balance;
   }

}
account1 balance: $50.00
account2 balance: $0.00

account1 balance: $60.10
account2 balance: $0.00

account1 balance: $60.10
account2 balance: $12.12


 Specifying initial values in a class definition

class {
  A(int marker) {
    System.out.println("Bowl(" + marker + ")");
  }

  void f(int marker) {
    System.out.println("f(" + marker + ")");
  }
}

class {
  static A a = new A(1);

  B() {
    System.out.println("Table()");
    staticA.f(1);
  }

  void f2(int marker) {
    System.out.println("f2(" + marker + ")");
  }

  static A staticA = new A(2);
}

class {
  A a = new A(3);

  static A staticA = new A(4);

  C() {
    System.out.println("Cupboard()");
    staticA.f(2);
  }

  void f3(int marker) {
    System.out.println("f3(" + marker + ")");
  }

  static A staticA2 = new A(5);
}

public class MainClass {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    System.out.println("Creating new Cupboard() in main");
    new C();
    System.out.println("Creating new Cupboard() in main");
    new C();
    t2.f2(1);
    t3.f3(1);
  }

  static B t2 = new B();

  static C t3 = new C();
}
Bowl(1)
Bowl(2)
Table()
f(1)
Bowl(4)
Bowl(5)
Bowl(3)
Cupboard()
f(2)
Creating new Cupboard() in main
Bowl(3)
Cupboard()
f(2)
Creating new Cupboard() in main
Bowl(3)
Cupboard()
f(2)
f2(1)
f3(1)

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