Adv. Modularization Techniques
The last statement in a method
What is a return statement?
The characteristics of an object
What are attributes?
A constructor which requires arguments
What is a nondefault constructor?
One of the tiny dots of light that form a grid on a monitor.
What is a Pixel?
The value passed to a method in the call to the method
What is an argument?
Instance methods which exist to be used with an object. They can receive a this reference.
The method's name and a list of argument types together.
What is the method's signature?
The location on your computer screen at which you type entries to communicate with the computer’s operating system.
What is the Command-Line Interface?
An item in the method header that accepts data passed into the method from the outside.
What is a parameter
The process of combining all of an object's attributes and methods into a single package
What is encapsulation?
The relationship created with composition
What is a "has-a" relationship?
A rectangular area in a GUI where the user can type text.
What is a text box?
A type of data item that is known to all of a program's modules.
What is a global data item?
The data components of a class that belong to every instantiated object.
What are instance variables (AKA fields)?
In object-oriented terminology, the generic name used for errors
What are "exceptions?"
An object that is “interested in” an event to which you want it to respond
What is a listener?
Occurs when a method is defined in terms of itself.
What is recursion?
Data types which are simple numbers and characters that are not class types.
What are primitive data types?
A block of code you attempt to execute while acknowledging that an exception might occur
What is a "try" block?
In most object-oriented languages, the method executes automatically when a class object is created.
What is the main() method?