In the previous post, we used the term “variable” for x in the example (as shown below). It is actually an attribute of the class. Or you could say that class attributes are variables within a class:

Create a class called “Main” with two attributes: x and y:

public class Main {
  int x = 5;
  int y = 3;
}

Another term for class attributes is fields.

Accessing Class Attributes

You can access attributes by creating an object of the class, and by using the dot syntax (.):

The following example will create an object of the Main class, with the name myObj. We use the x attribute on the object to print its value:

Create an object called “myObj” and print the value of x:


public class Main {
  int x = 5;

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Main myObj = new Main();
    System.out.println(myObj.x);
  }
}

In the example above, we created an object named myObj of class Main. To access the variable x, we used the syntax myObj.x, which returns the value of x, which is 5.

That’s it for now! In the next post, we will explore more about Java methods.

Happy hacking!