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Ch3 User-Defined Methods: What Is A Method in Java?

This document discusses user-defined methods in Java. It defines what a method is, explains why functions/methods are used, and covers topics like naming methods, types of methods and parameters, method overloading, and pure vs impure functions. Methods allow code reusability and modularity by grouping related statements together to perform a specific task. There are two types of methods - predefined methods like those in Math class, and user-defined methods created by the programmer. Parameters can be used to overload methods so that methods with the same name but different parameters can coexist.

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Ch3 User-Defined Methods: What Is A Method in Java?

This document discusses user-defined methods in Java. It defines what a method is, explains why functions/methods are used, and covers topics like naming methods, types of methods and parameters, method overloading, and pure vs impure functions. Methods allow code reusability and modularity by grouping related statements together to perform a specific task. There are two types of methods - predefined methods like those in Math class, and user-defined methods created by the programmer. Parameters can be used to overload methods so that methods with the same name but different parameters can coexist.

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Ch3 User-defined Methods

What is a method in Java?


• A method is a block of code or collection of statements or a set of code
grouped together to perform a certain task or operation.
• It is used to achieve the reusability of code.
• It also provides the easy modification and readability of code, just by
adding or removing a chunk of code.
• The method is executed only when we call or invoke it.
• The most important method in Java is the main() method.

Why Functions/Methods?
• To cope with complexity
• Hiding details
• Reuse

Naming a Method
• Single-word method name: sum(), area()
• Multi-word method name: areaOfCircle(), stringComparision()
• It is also possible that a method has the same name as another method
name in the same class, it is known as method overloading.

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Types of Methods
There are two types of methods in Java:
• Predefined Method
eg. Math.pow(), Math.sqrt()

• User-defined Method

Types of Method Parameters


• Actual parameters appears in the method call
• Formal parameters appears in the method defination

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Method Overloading
• In Java, two or more methods can have same name but if they differ in
parameters (different number of parameters, different types of
parameters, or both).

1. Overloading by changing the number of arguments

2. By changing the datatype of parameters

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• Pure functions does not modify the object
public static boolean after(Time t1,Time t2)
{
boolean result;
result=(t1.hour>t2.hour)?true:false;
return result;
}

• Impure functions modifies the object


public static void increment(Time t1)
{
t1.hour+=1;
}

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