Title: Methods and Encapsulation
Course: CPS 189: Java Certification - Review, Practice & Prepare (Development) > Section: Learning Modules

This unit covers methods, their declaration, and parameters. It also visits class variables, class methods, and constants. Finally, it outlines access modifiers and nested classes.

By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:

- Create methods with arguments and return values
- Apply the static keyword to methods and fields
- Differentiate between default and user-defined constructors
- Apply access modifiers
- Apply encapsulation principles to a class
- Determine the effect upon object references and primitive values when they are passed into methods that change the values