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Vocabulary-100

• ANSWER: The values within the parentheses• QUESTION: What are parameters?

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Vocabulary-200

• ANSWER: This indicates what type of data will be sent back from a method

• QUESTION: What is the return type?

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Vocabulary-300

• ANSWER: To execute a method, you must do this

• QUESTION: What is call the method (invoke the method)?

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Vocabulary-400

• ANSWER: This segment of code is written in the class to define how the method will do its job

• QUESTION: What is the method definition?

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Vocabulary-500

• ANSWER: This keyword must be included in class methods. It prevents us from making a copy (an object) of the class.

• QUESTION: What is static?

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• ANSWER: This type of method is called using the object name

• QUESTION: What is an object method?

Method Categories-100

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Method Categories-200

• ANSWER: This type of method is called using the class name

• QUESTION: What is a class method?

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Method Categories-300

• ANSWER: This type of method does not send data back to the main method

• QUESTION: What is a void method?

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Method Categories-400

• ANSWER: This type of method sends back data to the main method

• QUESTION: What is a return method?

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Method Categories-500

• ANSWER: This type of method has no information between its parentheses

• QUESTION: What is a no-parameter method?

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Writing Methods-100

• ANSWER: A method must contain this keyword to indicate that it is not sending back data.

• QUESTION: What is void?

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Writing Methods-200

• ANSWER: A method must contain these two keywords to indicate that it is sending back data.

• QUESTION: What is a data type and return?

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Writing Methods-300

• ANSWER: A void method has this many parameters.

• QUESTION: What is unlimited?

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Writing Methods-400

• ANSWER: Find the error in this method definition. public static double calcTax (int amount){ System.out.println(.0825 * amount);}

• QUESTION: What is either the wrong return type (should be void), or missing a return statement?

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Writing Methods-500

• ANSWER: Find the error in this method heading. public static void add (int num1, num2)

• QUESTION: What is a missing data type before num2?

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Hodgepodge-100

• ANSWER: A method is defined here

• QUESTION: What is inside a class?

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Hodgepodge-200

• ANSWER: You may have this many public classes in each Java file.

• QUESTION: What is one?

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Hodgepodge-300

• ANSWER: If only one class is in a file, this keyword should be added before the class.

• QUESTION: What is public?

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Hodgepodge-400

• ANSWER: You call a method from main. After the method definition is finished, this happens to any variables declared in the method definition.

• QUESTION: What is they are deallocated/destroyed?

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Hodgepodge-500

• ANSWER: Name the 3 important rules for using parameters.

• QUESTION: What are same quantity, same type, same sequence?

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FINAL JEOPARDY• ANSWER: Write the method definition

that would appear in a class for a method named total that receives two integers, adds them together, and returns their sum.

• QUESTION: What ispublic static int total (int n1, int n2){ return n1 + n2;}