Writing Methods in Java

Methods are what an object can actually do, such as in our DrawingTool example:

myPencil.forward(100);
myPencil.turnLeft();

Revisiting our example from Lesson A2, we can see that we have already been using methods.

Code Sample 4-1

We wrote our own methods (DrawSquare, draw) and we used some methods from the DrawingTool class (forward, turnLeft).

Remember from A2 that the general syntax of a method is: