Programming Concepts - Part 2

T/F: Instance methods should be declared static.

False

T/F: The public access specifier for a field indicates that the field may not be accessed by statements outside the class.

False

T/F: The term "default constructor" is applied to the first constructor written by the author of the class.

False

T/F: Instance methods do not have the key word static in their headers.

True

T/F: Shadowing is the term used to describe where the field name is hidden by the name of a local or parameter variable.

True

One or more objects may be created from a(n) ________.

class

It is common practice in object-oriented programming to make all of a class's ________.

fields private

Overloading means that multiple methods in the same class ________.

have the same name but different parameter lists

Methods that operate on an object's fields are called ________.

instance methods

Instance methods do not have the ________ key word in their headers.

static

The scope of a public instance field is ________.

the instance methods and methods outside the class

The scope of a private instance field is ________.

the instance methods of the same class

Data hiding (which means that critical data stored inside the object is protected from code outside the object) is accomplished in Java by ________.

using the private access specifier on the class fields