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Java Java Objects (Retired) Harnessing the Power of Objects Helper Methods and Conditionals

Aditya Puri
Aditya Puri
1,080 Points
Posted by Aditya Puri
Aditya Puri
1,080 Points

What are we trying to not repeat?

I understood everything he taught us in the video....we made a new methid which checks if the dispenser is empty and we used it in our main class.

BUT he keeps saying that we don't wanna repeat something...and at the end he congratses us for not repeating something,,,what did we not repeat??

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Josh Benner
Josh Benner
5,554 Points
Josh Benner
Josh Benner
5,554 Points

We prevented ourself from repeating writing the same code over and over again. Not only does putting repeated functionality make code cleaner, it makes it easier to modify and maintain and it uses less memory. Imagine that we checked the dispenser if it was empty or not a lot. Writing code in a main function would get tedious

Aditya Puri
Aditya Puri
1,080 Points
Aditya Puri
Aditya Puri
1,080 Points

oh so we didn't write code in the main function and wrote it in the class file?