Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

As you learned in my recent introduction to programming with classes and objects, you initialize an object via the code that you place in a class’s constructor. Consider Listing 7. Listing 7.

Java is case sensitive, so System must lead with an upper-case letter S. Every line of code in Java must end with a semi-colon. If you forget it, your code won’t compile. Any multi-character text ...