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What is a Class?
What is an Instance?
Class Members
Methods and Overloading
Instance Creation
Instance Destruction
Finalizers
Class Variables and Methods
Wrapper Classes

Classes are arguably the most important aspect of Java -- or of any object-oriented language.

The relationship between classes and objects is a close one, so we'll examine that relationship here.

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