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| Central Processing Unit; the brain of the computer. |
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| Program that manages and controls a computer's activities. Examples: Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. |
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| Java Virtual Machine; interprets compiled Java programs into byte-codes. |
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| Designates a location in memory for storing data in the program. |
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| Object Oriented Programming |
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| OOP; solving problems by viewing things as objects with properties (data fields) and behaviors (methods). |
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| Declaring data fields private to prevent direct modification. |
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| When a variable of a supertype can refer to an object of a subtype. |
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| Deriving new classes from existing classes. The subclasses can use data fields and methods from the superclass. |
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| Methods that initialize objects. They have the same name as the class and don't have a return type. |
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| Class-like object that contains only constants and abstract methods. |
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| When a subclass modifies a method defined in the superclass. |
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| Defining multiple methods with the same name but different signatures. |
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| Abstract vs. Concrete Class |
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| Abstract- class that can't have any specific instances. Concrete- a class that you can create objects of. |
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