In this lesson, students will learn about instance methods and start adding more interesting instance methods to their classes. The instance variables define the state of an object (instance), and the instance methods define the behavior of an object (instance). Instance methods give the object new abilities, they define what the object can actually do.
toString is one example of an instance method, it returns the instance’s (object’s) instance variables put together as a String, that way the instance can be printed out to the screen. It gives an object the ability, or the behavior, to represent itself as a String. In this lesson, we’ll start adding more instance methods to our classes.
Students will be able to:
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