Declaring a class in Java

public class Coordinate {

public int x;

public int y; }

• keywords public and class

• name of the class -- naming convention: capitalize all words in class names, e.g. StringBuffer

• body of the class (within { and })

  • field declarations (normal type and class declarations)
  • methods and constructors (later in the course)

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