Midterm Essay A method is a set of program statements that is the fundamental unit of execution in Java. Every method every method exists as part of a class. The two main reasons for a method are to organize the program and make the code for the program reusable. A Java program is a set of one or more classes and every class contains a set of one or more methods. Methods provide the logic …showed first 75 words of 858 total…

…showed last 75 words of 858 total…superclass. This will make it easier to control access to important data. Also it will keep all the subclasses of a private class private. For example class pen has public attributes of pull cap and twist cap. From there a subclass is created called marker. This class will also have the public attributes of pull cap and twist cap. The use inheritance, class and encapsulation make it easier and less time consuming to write programs.