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All right, let's work on getting some
more state represented in our object.

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I want to get some Pez in here so
we can do its job dispense.

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But first, in case you aren't
that big of a fan of Pez.

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You might not know some vital information
that we're going to need for our coding.

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So Pez refills come in
a packs of 12 like this.

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And that happens to be exactly the same
count as what the standard Pez dispenser

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can contain and no more.

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12 is the maximum limit that our object
can contain, and that limit won't change,

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it will remain constant.

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We should express this limitation
in code before people start

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filling it up, sound good?

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Let's do this.

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So the vital information that we
just talked about of how many Pez

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can be stored in dispenser.

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It's going to prove crucial
to how our object works.

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Now, this number of Pez that can fit in
a dispenser is something that will never

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change, right?

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Values that do not change are often
referred to as constants.

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A naming convention that helps explain
that a variable is a constant is to make

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all letters uppercase and
separate the words with an underscore.

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So let's add a max pez
constant to our class.

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So we'll just come up here.

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We'll say, public int MAX_PEZ,

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and like we said, that was 12.

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Okay, so let's imagine that this object
gets created as a currently stands in our

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implementation MAX_PEZ is public.

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So as you know,

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anyone could change the limit of how
many Pez this can be loaded with.

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That's not actually how things
work in real life, right?

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I can't do that with
an actual Pez dispenser.

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So again, we should make sure
that our objects reflect reality.

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We can make it reflect reality with,
you guessed it, our old friend final.

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So let's go ahead and save this.

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So let's poke at it in
jshell really quick.

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So I'm gonna open up jshell down here.

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And jshell allows you to open classes,
which is pretty cool.

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So to open your code, you just do a / and
then the command open.

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And then you can just start typing
your class and open PezDispenser.java.

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We're gonna open up as PezDipenser.java.

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So now, what that does is PezDispenser
actually lives in the code here.

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So we can say, PezDispenser.

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And we'll just call it pd,
that's bad, right?

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That's bad, what does PD mean?

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Letter, Police Department?

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I don't know.

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All right, so I'm gonna say, Yoda.

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Okay, and if we wanted to, now,

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we can see that the MAX_PEZ exists.

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MAX_PEZ, okay.
And if we try to change that

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constant 123 in there.

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You can assign a value to find a variable,
MAX_PEZ, cool.

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So we've blocked the value from changing.

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And our object is now this much
closer to representing reality.

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Now, this concept of providing
vital constant information

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about your class is super common.

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Here, let's take a look at
the integer class actually.

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So if we got an integer, and I come here.

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Now, jshell like we said,
offers tab completion.

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So let's leave Integer and
then we'll do a tab.

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And look at all the uppercase
values there, so here we got BYTES.

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We got MAX_VALUE, MIN_VALUE, so let's
see what the max value of integer is.

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So that's how big a number
can be stored in.

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But you know what?

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That's right off the class.

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And that's because it's true of every
integer that will ever be created.

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Now, can we do that in our class?

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I see that we did it on our instance,
right?

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But can we do it like this?

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Can we say, PezDispenser.MAX_PEZ.

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And it says,

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a non static variable MAX_PEZ cannot
be a referenced from a static context.

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Nope, it doesn't work.

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But this constant is true of
all PezDispensers that will

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ever be created from this class.

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So it should be defined on the class.

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We should need to create an instance.

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We should be able to act
just like Integer did.

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So as you might have guessed by now,
it's just another keyword.

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Now, the problem here is that the keyword
isn't very clear as to what it's doing.

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The keyword is static.

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So let's put it up here and
get it in here.

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So say static,
I'm gonna save the file again.

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And then let's reopen our Pez dispenser.

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So if you say, open ns2p in our tab,
PezDispenser.java.

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Cool, and I'm gonna control
L to clear the screen here.

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And if I do PezDispenser.MAX_PEZ.

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Now, these are sometimes also referred to
as class level variables because you can

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access them at the class level,
as opposed to the instance.

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And the error from before,
it makes a little bit more sense, right?

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It said,

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non-static variable MAX_PEZ cannot
be referenced from a static context.

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Now, this class level is called the static
context versus the instances context.

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Now, the keyword,

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static actually refers to how
the variable itself is stored in memory.

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But what it actually allows you to do
is the ability to provide variables and

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methods directly off your class as
opposed to having them on the instance.

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So actually here,

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the auto complete in jshell will show
you what's available statically, right?

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If we do Integer again and we press tab.

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There's one we've seen before, parseInt.

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So that's a great example of a static
method that you've already used, right?

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So remember that it'll let you take
a string parseInt and return the number.

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See, how it's right off the class?

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Now, I don't think we need
any of those in our class.

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But I thought I'd show you
since you've seen that already.

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And when I showed you before, I had said,

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there's a static method off of
the Integer class named parseInt.

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And before that,
probably just sounded like mumbo jumbo.

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But now,
it should be starting to be more familiar.

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So now, if we pop back over to
Example.java before anything,

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we can use it because it's now public and
static, so let's do that.

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So we're making a PEZ Dispenser.

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So let's add a new System.out,

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we'll do a print line, or
let's do printf actually.

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We'll say, ("FUN FACT: There are %d

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PEZ allowed in every dispenser",.

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And we'll go ahead, and

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we will push in our value before we

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create PezDispenser.MAX_PEZ.

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I should put a new line
at the end of this.

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And see, how we didn't need
to have the instance at all?

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This is before we initialized it.

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A fun fact about Java specifically is that
because a variable is modified with static

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and final, when the compilation happens,
when javac happens.

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It replaces all instances of that
variable with the actual value.

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Okay, so now that we know how to
not overfill these Pez Dispensers,

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let's make sure we don't overfill
our brains with new concepts.

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Why don't you take a quick break and
let this information sink in.

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Now, during your break,

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try to think of any other constants for
objects in the real world.

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Are those constants unique
to that specific object or

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all objects of that type?

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Okay, I'll see in a bit.

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Enjoy your break.

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We built this city,
we built this city on rock and rule.