Chapter 7 "Midterms" - Vocabulary Terms
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| Access level | The part of a method declaration that determines if the method can be called by other classes.
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| Access modifier | A keyword in the declaration of a method that determines the access level of a method.
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| Argument | The value or variable passed to a method.
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| Call | A statement that contains a method name followed by parentheses.
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| Boundary Value | A value that lies just inside or just outside the range of valid values.
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| Class method | A method that can be called from the class itself.
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| Local | Variables, constants, and objects that are declared within a method and therefore have a scope limited to that method.
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| Method body | The statements that implement a method.
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| Method declaration | The first line of a method, which contains the method name, access level, return type, and parameters, if any.
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| Method overloading | Writing more than one method of the same name in a class.
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| Method parameters | The part of a method declaration that accepts values from the method call.
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| Pass | Giving data to a method by enclosing the data in parentheses in the method call.
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| Pass by value | Passing the value of an argument to a method. The type of data passed depends on whether the argument is a primitive or an object.
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| Precondition | The part of a method's documentation that states the assumptions, or initial requirements, of the method. Also called "pre".
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| Procedural abstraction | Breaking a task down into methods
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| Postcondition | The part of a method's documentation that states the assumptions, or initial requirements, of the method. Also called "post".
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| Top-down development | A problem-solving approach where a task is broken down into subtasks and then the subtasks are reduced to yet simpler tasks.
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| Visibility | The access level of a method.
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