Classes, fields, methods, constructors, and objects are the building blocks of object-based Java applications. This Java tutorial teaches you how to declare classes, describe attributes via fields ...

As you learned in my recent introduction to programming with classes and objects, you initialize an object via the code that you place in a class’s constructor. Consider Listing 7. Listing 7.

From a purely object-oriented perspective, "copy semantics" is the right way to preserve control over object ownership. But in those scenarios where ownership becomes irrelevant, C++11 "move semantics ...

In my article, "How Helper Variables Can Simplify Debugging," I mentioned that it might be handy to add special debug variables for the objects in your code.We can go further with this idea. For ...