{"id":11299,"date":"2015-07-06T21:51:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T21:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=11299"},"modified":"2015-07-06T21:56:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T21:56:23","slug":"java-an-object-oriented-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/java-an-object-oriented-pizza\/","title":{"rendered":"Java:  an object-oriented pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor offers an illustration of a Java class.<\/h1>\n<p>Java is an object-oriented programming language.  To tackle a problem, the programmer creates a <strong>class<\/strong>, which is an entity that holds (possibly) some data as well as (possibly) one or more functions, called <em>methods<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For an example, here is a Java class called Pizza:<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:monospace;color:maroon\"><br \/>\nclass Pizza{<br \/>\nString toppings=&#8221;&#8221;;<br \/>\npublic void describeMe(){<br \/>\nSystem.out.println(&#8220;I&#8217;m a pizza with these toppings: &#8220;+toppings);<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nPizza(String[] toppingslist){<span style=\"color:orange\">\/\/this is a constructor<\/span><br \/>\nfor(int i=0;i&lt;toppingslist.length;i++){<br \/>\ntoppings+=toppingslist[i];<br \/>\nif(i&lt;(toppingslist-2)){<br \/>\ntoppings+=&#8221;, &#8220;;<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nelse if(i==(toppingslist-2)){<br \/>\ntoppings+=&#8221; and &#8220;;<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n}<span style=\"color:orange\">\/\/end of for loop<\/span><br \/>\ntoppings+=&#8221;.&#8221;<br \/>\n}<br \/>\n}<span style=\"color:orange\">\/\/end of class Pizza<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In coming posts I&#8217;ll provide more detail about the Pizza class shown here.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/javase\/tutorial\/java\/javaOO\/constructors.html\">docs.oracle.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor offers an illustration of a Java class. Java is an object-oriented programming language. To tackle a problem, the programmer creates a class, which is an entity that holds (possibly) some data as well as (possibly) one or more &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/java-an-object-oriented-pizza\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Java:  an object-oriented pizza<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[919,761,766,602,514],"class_list":["post-11299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science","tag-constructor","tag-java","tag-java-class","tag-java-programming","tag-object-oriented-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11299"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11313,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11299\/revisions\/11313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}