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block
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a section of code enclosed in curly braces; the body of a method
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formal arguments
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the list of arguments and corresponding data types listed in method definition
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instance methods
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are associated with one object and use the instance variables of that object
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instance variable
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a variable defined within a class
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public
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no restrictions on how instance variables are used
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visible in other classes. The keyword public indicates that the method can be called by any object
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UML
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Universal Modeling Language
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method definition
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the method key word followed by the name of the method and its argument list
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library
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a collection of code that can be used to solve related tasks
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object
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an instance of a class
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precondition of a method
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an assumption that must be true that method makes about its arguments
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the divisor is not zero is an example of an assumption
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private
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visible only inside this class
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reply
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the values returned to main from a method call
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value returning method
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this type of method has a return statement indicating the value that is assigned to method call variable
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void method (procedure)
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this type of method does not return anything to the method call. The method just does whatever it is supposed to do
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calling / invoking
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executing a method's logic
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