True or false? The main method in the controlling class of a Java application controls the flow of the program.

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True or false? The main method cannot access the variables and methods of objects instantiated from other classes.

Answer 2

True or false? The main method must instantiate objects of other classes in order for the program to execute.

Answer 3

True or false? In order to be useful, the System class must be used to instantiate objects in a Java application.

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True or false? Class variables such as the out variable of the System class must be of some specific type.

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True or false? Class variables must be of a primitive type such as int or float .

Answer 6

True or false? The out variable in the System class is of a primitive type.

Answer 7

True or false? What does the following code fragment access?

System.out

Answer 8

True or false? An object of type PrintStream is automatically instantiated when the System class is loaded into an application.

Answer 9

True or false? The out variable in the System class refers to an instance of what class?

Answer 10

True or false? The println method is an instance method of what class?

Answer 11

What is the primary behavior of the println method?

Answer 12

How can the println method be accessed?

Answer 13

Assuming that the standard output device has not been redirected, write a code fragment that will cause your name to be displayed on the screen.

Answer 14

Explain how your code fragment in Answer 14 produces the desired result.

Answer 15

If you have a class named MyClass that has a class variable named myClassVariable that requires four bytes of memory and you instantiate ten objects of type MyClass , how much total memory will be allocated to contain the allocated variables (assume that the class definition contains no other class, instance, or local variables) .

Answer 16

How many actual instances of the variable named out are allocated in memory by the following code fragment?

System.out.println("Dick Baldwin"); 

Answer 17

If you have a class named MyClass that has an instance variable named myInstanceVariable that requires four bytes of memory and you instantiate ten objects of type MyClass , how much total memory will be allocated to contain the allocated variables (assume that the class definition contains no other class, instance, or local variables) .

Answer 18

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Every instance of a class has its own set of instance variables. You can only access instance variables and instance methods through an object of the class. In this case, forty bytes of memory would be required to contain the instance variables of the ten objects.

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Only one, because out is a class variable of the System class.

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The runtime system allocates a class variable only once no matter how many instances of the class are instantiated. Thus, all objects of the class share the same physical memory space for the class variable, and in this case, only four bytes of memory will be allocated to contain the allocated variables.

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The statement in Answer 14 calls the println method belonging to an object of the PrintStream class, which is referenced (pointed to) by the out variable, which is a class variable of the System class.

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System.out.println("Dick Baldwin"); 

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The println method can be accessed by joining the name of a variable that references a PrintStream object to the name of the println method using a period.

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The println method causes its argument to be displayed on the standard output device. (The standard output device is the screen by default, but can be redirected by the user at the operating system level.)

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The println method is an instance method of the PrintStream class.

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The out variable in the System class refers to an instance of the PrintStream class (a PrintStream object), which is automatically instantiated when the System class is loaded into the application.

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True.

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The code fragment accesses the contents of the class variable named out in the class named System .

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False. the variable named out defined in the System class is a reference variable that points to an object of another type.

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False. A class variable can be a primitive type, or it can be a reference variable that points to another object.

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True.

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False. The System class has several class variables (including out and in ) that are useful without the requirement to instantiate an object of the System class.

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False. While it is probably true that the main method must instantiate objects of other classes in order to accomplish much that is of value, this is not a requirement. The main method in the "Hello World" program of this module does not instantiate objects of any class at all.

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False. The main method can access the variables and methods of objects instantiated from other classes. Otherwise, the flow of the program would be stuck within the main method itself and wouldn't be very useful.

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True.

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