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A. Writing Methods in Java page 3 of 11

  1. Methods are what an object can actually do, such as in our DrawingTool example:

    myPencil.forward(100);
    myPencil.turnLeft();

  2. Revisiting our example from Student Lesson A2, we can see that we have already been using methods.


    Code Sample 4-1

    We wrote our own methods (DrawSquare, draw) and we used some methods from the DrawingTool class (forward, turnLeft).

  3. Remember from A2 that the general syntax of a method is:

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