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Java Basic With An Roid

The document discusses defining methods in Java. It provides an example method called checkBalance() that prints messages to the console. The checkBalance() method declaration specifies that it is public, void (does not return a value), and takes no parameters. The body of the method contains two print statements between curly braces. The document notes that methods allow code reuse and anything that can be done in main() can be done in other methods. It then provides instructions for adding an advertise() method to the Store class, which is made public and void, and prints sample messages containing the productType variable value.

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Java Basic With An Roid

The document discusses defining methods in Java. It provides an example method called checkBalance() that prints messages to the console. The checkBalance() method declaration specifies that it is public, void (does not return a value), and takes no parameters. The body of the method contains two print statements between curly braces. The document notes that methods allow code reuse and anything that can be done in main() can be done in other methods. It then provides instructions for adding an advertise() method to the Store class, which is made public and void, and prints sample messages containing the productType variable value.

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LEARN JAVA: METHODS
Defining Methods
If we were to define a checkBalance() method for the Savings Account example we talked about
earlier, it would look like the following:

public void checkBalance(){


  System.out.println("Hello!");
  System.out.println("Your balance is " + balance);
}
The first line, public void checkBalance(), is the method declaration. It gives the program some
information about the method:

 public means that other classes can access this method. We will learn more about that
later in the course.
 The void keyword means that there is no specific output from the method. We will see
methods that are not void later in this lesson, but for now, all of our methods will be void.
 checkBalance() is the name of the method.

Every method has its own unique method signature which is comprised of the method’s name
and its parameter type. In this example, the method signature is checkBalance().

The two print statements are inside the body of the method, which is defined by the curly
braces: { and }.

Anything we can do in our main() method, we can do in other methods! All of the Java tools you
know, like the math and comparison operators, can be used to make interesting and useful
methods.

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checkBalance() is considered a non-static method because its signature does not include the
keyword static like the main() method does. We’ll learn more about non-static methods later in
this course.

Instructions

1.
In between the constructor and the main() method, add a method called advertise() to
the Store class. It should be accessible by other classes, and should have no output.

You can leave the body of the method empty.


Checkpoint 2 Passed

Hint
If we wanted to write a method called bark() that is accessible by other classes and produces no
output, we would use syntax like:

public void bark(){

}
2.
Inside the advertise() method, type two print statements. They should result in the printouts:

"Come spend some money!"


"Selling productType!"
where productType is replaced with the value in the variable productType.

However, we’re not going to see these Strings printed out yet! We’ll see in the next exercise how
we can make these printouts actually run.
Checkpoint 3 Passed

Hint
If we wanted to print The name of this dog is dogName! with dogName replaced by the value in
the dogName variable, we would write:

System.out.println("The name of this dog is " + dogName + "!");


Make sure to write your print statements within the curly braces of the advertise() method!

Store.java

public class Store {

// instance fields

String productType;

// constructor method
public Store(String product) {

productType = product;

// advertise method

public void advertise(){

System.out.println("Come spend some money!");

System.out.println("Selling " + productType + "!");

// main method

public static void main(String[] args) {

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