Exam 7: Object-Oriented Programming, Part 2: User-Defined Classes

Javadoc is an executable program used to produce HTML-based documentation similar to the documentation available on Oracle's Java website.

Accessor methods take no parameters.

A method of a class can access:

Javadoc recognizes two types of tags: block tags and comment tags.

static methods can call non-static methods.

The access modifier of accessor and mutator methods is usually __________.

Which of the following is a similarity between ordinal( ) and compareTo( Enum eObj )?

The enum objects are instantiated as constant objects, meaning that their values can be changed.

The default constructor takes no parameters.

What are the three access modifiers?

Block tags start with the character @.

Static data belong to the class, rather than to a particular object, or instance, of the class.

Analyze why a programmer would want to make known the public method names and their APIs, but not the code of the class.

How would you defend taking the time to design your own classes?

static variables that are constants are usually declared to be public because they typically are provided to allow the client to set preferences for the operations of a class. If you define a static variable for your class that is not a constant, it is best to define it as private and provide accessor and mutator methods, as appropriate, for client access to the static variable.

In terms of accessing instance variables, are static or non-static variables more restricted?

The name of a method, along with its parameter list, is called the __________ of that method.

Give an example of a Javadoc tag.

What syntax is used to define a class?

When we provide several constructors, we are __________ that method.