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Java

Posted by Aziz Muga
Aziz Muga
600 Points

Java classes and objects

i couldn't understand how to make classes and objects in java and what both of them mean.

1 Answer

Kyle McCullen
Kyle McCullen
16,639 Points
Kyle McCullen
Kyle McCullen
16,639 Points

Classes are blueprints of objects. Objects are created from these blueprints(classes) and have states and behaviors. For example the class below

public class Person {
   public String firstName;
   public String lastName;
}

An object is an instace of a class. For example we can create a object called person1 from the Person class.

Person person1 = new Person();

Then we can change the properties which are public.

Person1.firstName =“Kyle”;

The class we created is called Person and we instantiated a object from that class called person1. You can istansiate multiple objects of the same class.

You can find more information here

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/java_object_classes.htm

Hope this helps.