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ITM 352Simple Arrays Lecture # Announcements Grades for assignment #1 posted on web site Use your class ID # Exam questions posted on web site Study early! For those who feel they need extra help, come to the extra lab session Friday anytime 12-3pm Today Informal Survey Review: Methods method definition methods and ivars parameters, parameter passing constructors Some example programs: “mini” robot development Simple Arrays Informal Survey Where are you at now? Informal Survey: actions Do you feel you have [too little, too much, just enough] opportunities for programming practice and examples? Informal Survey Overall are you [happy, unhappy] with this class as it stands now? Review Objects and Methods Method calls Calling a method is a way of executing a bunch of Java statements that appear elsewhere. Those statements appear in a method definition, which may be written by you or supplied by the system. To invoke a method, you do not have to know what statements it contains, but you do have to know what they do, and you have to know the method name. Methods carry out an objects behaviors Object messaging: using methods Behaviors are the result of object interaction through messaging Object messaging itself It is very common (and elegant when appropriate) for an object to message itself The special keyword this always refers to the current object any method call that does not begin with a reference implicity has a this in from of it Method calls (cont.) Two flavors of methods: class methods and instance methods. SavitchIn.readLine() is a class method. Class methods are always called using the name of the class (SavitchIn), a period, and then the name of the method (readLine). world.robotLocation()is an instance method. Instance methods are always called using a reference to an object (i.e. an instance of a Class) Method Parameters Methods can accept any number of arguments of any data type each argument must be specified in the method definition se