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CHAPTER
10
T
HINKING IN
O
BJECTS
Objectives
To create immutable objects from immutable classes to protect the contents
of objects (§10.2).
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To determine the scope of variables in the context of a class (§10.3).
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To use the keyword
this
to refer to the calling object itself (§10.4).
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To apply class abstraction to develop software (§10.5).
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To explore the differences between the procedural paradigm and
object-oriented paradigm (§10.6).
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To develop classes for modeling composition relationships (§10.7).
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To design programs using the object-oriented paradigm (§§10.8-10.10).
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To design classes that follow the class-design guidelines (§10.11).
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To create objects for primitive values using the wrapper classes (
Byte
,
Short
,
Integer
,
Long
,
Float
,
Double
,
Character
, and
Boolean
)
(§10.12).
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To simplify programming using automatic conversion between primitive
types and wrapper class types (§10.13).
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To use the
BigInteger
and
BigDecimal
classes for computing very large
numbers with arbitrary precisions (§10.14).
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