Methods & Arguments

[Bryan Snipes]

Hello everyone... I am just beginning to learn Java thru online courses. My first question (of many!) is what is the (Shirt s) in the code below? I understand that this method is accepting parameters from another class. But I don't understand what the "Shirt" is... the course said the "s" is the parameter.

public double addShirt (Shirt s) {

[Richard Chambers]

Shirt is the type of "s"

If you program is dealing with a closet,
you'd have Shirts, Pants, Coats, etc...

"s" in this case would be how many of the type.

Hope this helps,

btw, I'm struggling to finish my first semester JAVA class too,
so others will have more clarification or correction for me I'm sure.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch.

Not quite, Richard.
You are correct that the type of the parameter is Shirt, but the "s" is what you are calling it in the method you are writing. The official term is the identifier for that parameter.

[Bill Shirley]

not only is Shirt a type,
it's very likely a class,
and will very likely be defined in another file,
very likely called Shirt.java,
with some code similar to

class Shirt {
 // the details
 
}

[Jesper de Jong]

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