The first half of this introduction to Java inheritance teaches you how to use the extends keyword to derive a child class from a parent class, invoke parent class constructors and methods ...

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Anyone who sees the const keyword in Java would logically assume its original intention was to define a constant value. That assumption isn’t too far off the mark. Both C and C++ use the const keyword ...

Fortunately, most of us learn early in our Java development experience that we can generally use the reference types ... instantiation with {@code new} keyword, * {@code Long.valueOf(String)}, ...