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a variable with one copy shared by all class objects |
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the portion of a program that can refer to an entity by its simple name |
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Classes from which objects can be instantiated are called _______ classes |
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Derived-class constructors can call base class constructors via the _______ keyword |
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The ______ is called by the garbage collector before it reclaims an object's memory |
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Methods of the same name can be declared in the same class, as long as they have different sets of parameters |
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combination of the method's name, and the number, types and orders of its parameters |
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When an agrument is passed a copy of its value is amde and passed to the called function.
Changes to the copy do not affect orginal variable value |
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variables store references to objects, so specifiying a reference type variable as argument passes the method a copy of the actual reference that refers to the object |
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