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1. Title:
   Inputs to a Method
2. Description:

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   Wait.
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   >> What's wrong?
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   >> When did this turn into
   a cooking show all of a sudden?
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   >> Since we had to talk about methods?
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   >> Care to explain, Rachael Ray?
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   >> [LAUGH] Well,
   have you ever baked a cake before?
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   >> I have eaten a cake before.
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    >> Okay.
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    Well, then you're fully qualified for
    this.
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    >> Okay.
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    >> All you have to do to bake
    a cake is to put in flour, sugar.
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    >> The ingredients.
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    Okay.
    >> The ingredients.
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    Yeah.
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    And then you follow
    the instructions of the recipe.
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    >> Okay.
    >> And then out comes a cake.
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    >> Like this?
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    >> Yeah.
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    >> Okay.
    Well
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    connect the analogy to
    the methods one more time.
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    >> Okay.
    Sure so for
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    a method you can put in inputs.
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    >> Like we did the quantity for
    the display method?
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    >> Yeah, and then you execute
    the instructions of the method.
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    >> Okay, almost like the recipe for
    making a cake?
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    >> Mm-hm.
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    Then you can have
    the output value returned.
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    >> Outputs, they are delicious.
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    >> [LAUGH]
    >> Let's look up more information
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    about input parameters for methods.
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    I'm going to do a Google search for
    Jjava method parameter.
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    The first link looks good so
    I'm going to click on it.
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    Now this article talks about
    passing information to a method.
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    Here's a code snippet that computes
    the monthly payments for a home loan.
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    It has four input parameters,
    loan amount, interest rate, future value
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    of the loan, as well as the number
    periods of the length of the loan.
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    And then inside this method we see
    that we can use these input parameters
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    simply as variables to do
    our math calculations.
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    When we call the compute payment method,
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    we have to make sure we pass in
    the inputs in this specific order.
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    So the loan amount has to go first,
    and then the rate and so on.
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    For the quiz in this section,
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    you'll have the chance to review
    this article in more detail.
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    Within the main activity
    of the desk Java app,
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    we're going to be modifying
    the display quantity method and
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    the input parameter to
    give you some practice.
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    Notice that in the decrement
    method of our app,
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    what we call the display
    quantity method,
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    we're passing the quantity variable
    over as input to this method.
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    But the input parameter
    is called 'number', so
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    whenever we want to refer to this input,
    we just have to say number.
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    Now technically we could have used
    the global quantity variable within this
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    method instead of passing
    it as an input parameter.
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    but for the purposes of teaching
    you about input parameters,
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    let's just leave it like this.
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    I can change this call to
    the display quantity method so
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    it passes input, the number 30.
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    This is valid because it still
    matches the input data type.
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    So in the decrement method when
    we call it display quantity,
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    it will jump down here and
    it will execute these instructions, and
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    the variable number will
    have the value of 30.
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    I'll run it on my device to show you,
    so now when I run the minus button on my
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    app, it will display
    a quantity of 30 here.
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    So let me try that.
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    There.
    And it actually happened like that.
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    I can also create a different variable
    and pass that as an input to the method.
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    Here I've created a local variable
    called some quantity, and
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    I initialized it to 100.
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    I passed this variable
    as input to this method,
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    and now the number variable
    inside here has a value of 100.
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    Let me run this on the device.
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    Now I expect when I hit the minus
    button the quantity will update to 100.
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    And it does.
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    These are just some things
    you can do to experiment with
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    passing in different inputs to a method.
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    As you work with input parameters,
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    another term that you might
    come across is arguments.
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    When you call a method,
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    the inputs being passed to that
    method are called the arguments.
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    Now this is kind of a funny word.
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    Because when you think of arguments,
    you think of people yelling and
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    cursing at each other.
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    But this is not like that.
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    Arguments are simply the inputs
    being passed to a method.
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    Input parameters are the actual
    inputs in your method declaration and
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    those are the variables that
    are used within your method.
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    So that's a slight difference between
    input parameter and arguments.
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    In any case, go ahead and
    read the article and
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    the instructor notes
    about method parameters.
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    Then go ahead and
    experiment with the code in your app.
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    First try to rename
    the number input parameter
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    within the display quantity
    method declaration.
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    Just simply give it
    a different variable name.
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    Then go ahead and fix any errors,
    and then run the app again.
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    For the next test, go ahead and
    change the data type
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    of the number input parameter from
    an int to something else like String.
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    Observe what happens and
    then go ahead and undo the change.
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     If you want to experiment with
     other things, go right ahead.
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     For example, if you have a question,
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     what would happen if I do x,
     then just go ahead and try it.