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大连交通大学2016届本科生毕业设计（论文）外文翻译 外文原文 Working with Objects Let’s start today’s lesson with an obvious statement: because Java is an object-oriented language, you’re going to be dealing with a lot of objects. You’ll create them, modify them, move them around, change their variables, call their methods, combine them with other objects—and, of course, develop classes and use your own objects in the mix. Today, therefore, you’ll learn all about the Java object in its natural habitat. Today’s topics include: □ Creating instances of classes □ Testing and modifying class and instance variables in your new instance □ Calling methods in that object □ Casting (converting) objects and other data types from one class to another □ Other odds and ends about working with objects □ An overview of the Java class libraries Creating New Objects When you write a Java program, you define a set of classes. As you learned on Day 2, classes are templates for objects; for the most part, you merely use the class to create instances and then work with those instances. In this section, therefore, you’ll learn how to create a new object from any given class. Remember strings from yesterday? You learned that using a string literal—a series of characters enclosed in double-quotes—creates a new instance of the class String with the value of that string. The String class is unusual in that respect—although it’s a class, there’s an easy way to create instances of that class using a literal. The other classes don’t have that shortcut; to create instances of those classes you have to do so explicitly by using the new operator. Note：What about the literals for numbers and characters? Don’t they create objects, too? Actually, they don’t. The primitive data types for numbers and characters create numbers and characters, but for efficiency, they aren’t actually objects. You can put object-wrappers around them if you need to treat them like objects (you’ll learn how to do this later). Using new To create a new o