Important Terms and Related Concepts

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Important Terms and Related Concepts
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Terms

• Overloading
• Defn the situation where several different
  methods or constructors have same name
• Selection made by argument type, i.e.,
• Signature
• Overriding
• Providing a different implementation of a method
  in a derived class (i.e., in a subclass)
• Try / Catch
• Applet
• Polymorphism
• the object decides what method to apply
• works up the inheritance tree

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• abstract class (classes that do not have
  instances)
• attribute
• buffering
• bytecode
• concatenation
• class variable (variable accessible by all
  methods in the class defined with word static)

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• constructor
• no-arg constructor
• Fully populating constructor
• event-driven program
• dot notation
• garbage collection
• instance
• instantiate
• Interface

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• local variable / global variable
• multiple inheritance
• mutator accessor methods
• package (named collection of classes)
• pass by value
• pointer
• precedence

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• record
• scope
• static method
• strongly typed
• structured programming
• parameter parameter list
• actual parameter
• formal parameter

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• token
• variable
• virtual machine