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Trail: Learning the Java Language
Lesson: Classes and Objects

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This section covers more aspects of classes that depend on using object references and the dot operator that you learned about in the preceding sections on objects:

• Returning values from methods.
• The this keyword.
• Class vs. instance members.
• Access control.