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What Is A Primitive What Is An Object - Pps

A primitive variable like int x stores its value directly in memory and is not an object. A String variable y is a reference to a String object; initially y is null until the new keyword is used to create a String object in memory, and y is made to reference the new object, pointing to its location.

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What Is A Primitive What Is An Object - Pps

A primitive variable like int x stores its value directly in memory and is not an object. A String variable y is a reference to a String object; initially y is null until the new keyword is used to create a String object in memory, and y is made to reference the new object, pointing to its location.

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What is an Object?

What is a primitive?
What is an Object? What is a primitive?
int x; A primitive variable is NOT an object. It is stored in one
x = 2; place in RAM.

int x
2
What is an Object? What is a primitive?
String y;
A String is an object. Here, I have only declared a
reference. We say “’y’ is a reference to an object of
type String. However, at this point, ‘y’ points to
nothing.

String y
null
Now, using the new keyword to execute
What is an Object? What is a primitive?
the Constructor method, I have created
String y; an instance of the String class. Then, I
return the address (of the object I just
y = new String( “Hello” ); created) to the reference ‘y’, which then
points to the object. Now, ‘y’ points to the
object I just created.

String y
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String “Hello”

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