Re: "How do you arrive at classes?"

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=?windows-1252?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 19 Jan 2015 21:28:32 -0500
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On 1/14/2015 10:52 AM, FredK wrote:

On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 8:58:00 PM UTC-8, Stefan Ram wrote:

I keep simplifying and simplifying my Java course:
   during the first 40 hours all programs have one single
   class declaration only!

   Now, a student asked me: ?How do you arrive at classes??,
   in the sense of: ?How do you get to know which classes
   should be declared in your code, especially when there
   is more than one class declaration in the program??.

   (It might have a slight subtext, that he expects ?real
   programs? to have multiple classes [which is not even wrong!].)

   His question made sense, since I have very rarely or never
   shown them programs with multiple class declarations!
   (I showed already some ?advanced? stuff like non-static
   method declarations, and simple JavaFX windows with
   method literals, but all in a single class.) For example:


Your example is full of other classes!

public class Main extends javafx.application.Application


Application is another class

{ public void start( final javafx.stage.Stage window )


'window' is an instance of another class

   { final javafx.scene.control.TextField text
     = new javafx.scene.control.TextField( "10" );


'text' is an instance of another class

     text.setOnAction
     ( e ->
       { text.setText
         ( java.lang.String.valueOf


String is another class

           ( 3 * java.lang.Integer.valueOf


Integer is another class

             ( text.getText() ).intValue() )); });
     final javafx.scene.Scene scene


'scene' is an instance of another class


His code is full of using other classes not defining other
classes.

Important given the question.

Arne

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