CONSTRUCTOR

• special method that is used to create and initialize an object.

  CONSTRUCTOR
• Using the ___ keyword calls a constructor.

  new
• A constructor does not have a return type.
• A constructor can call methods within its class.
• belong to a class as a whole and not to an individual object.

  Static variables and methods
• A ___ is shared by all the objects of its class.

  static variable
• A static variable can be public or private.
• Static variables that are not constants should normally be private and should be accessed or changed only by accessor and mutator methods.
• A static method is a method that can be invoked without using any object. It is invoked by using the class name instead of an object name.
• ·       A static method is written with the static keyword in the heading of the method definition.
• When you call a static method, you write the class name instead of the object name
• A static method cannot reference an instance variable of the class. It cannot invoke a non-static
•   The predefined Math class provides a number of standard mathematical methods.
• ·       occurs when multiple methods have the same name within the same class.

  overloading
• This is done by having different method definitions in the methods’ parameter lists.

  overloading
• A method’s name and the number and types of its parameters are called the method’s _____


  signature