Chapter 8: Designing Classes

Question 1

cohesive

Answer 1

A class is cohesive if its features support a single abstraction.

Question 2

Unified Modeling Language

Answer 2

A notation for specifying, visualizing, constructing, and documenting the artifacts of software systems.

Question 3

accessor method

Answer 3

A method with a name, parameter variable types, and return type but
without an implementation.

Question 4

mutator method

Answer 4

A method that changes the state of an object.

Question 5

immutable class

Answer 5

A class without a mutator method.

Question 6

side effect

Answer 6

An effect of a method other than returning a value.

Question 7

static variable

Answer 7

A variable defined in a class that has only one value for the whole class, and which can be accessed and changed by any method of that class.

Question 8

static method

Answer 8

A method with no implicit parameter.

Question 9

package

Answer 9

A collection of related classes. The import statement is used to access one or more classes in a package.