instantiation - How to instantiate an object in java?

Question

I'm new in programming and I would like to know where did I go wrong in instantiating an object. Below is the code:

public class Testing{
    private int Sample(int c)
    {
        int a = 1;
        int b = 2;
        c = a + b;
        return c;
    }
    public static void main(String []args)
    {
        Sample myTest = new Sample();
        System.out.println(c);
    }
}

Answer 1

There is no Sample class in your code . The one which you have declared is a private method .

// private method which takes an int as parameter and returns another int
private int Sample(int c)
{
  int a = 1;
  int b = 2;
  c = a + b;
  return c;
}

With the current snippet , You need to instantiate the Testing class and make use of the Sample method. Notice your class definition is preceded by the keyword class , in this case class Testing.

public class Testing{
  private int Sample(int c)
  {
    int a = 1;
    int b = 2;
    c = a + b;
    return c;
 }
  public static void main(String []args)
 {
    Testing t = new Testing(); // instantiate a Testing class object
    int result = t.Sample(1); // use the instance t to invoke a method on it
    System.out.println(result);
 }
}

But that doesn't really make sense, your Sample method always returns 3 .

Are you trying to do something like this :

class Sample {
 int a;
 int b;

 Sample(int a, int b) {
    this.a = a;
    this.b = b;
 }

 public int sum() {
    return a + b;
 }
}

public class Testing {
 public static void main(String[] args) {
    Sample myTest = new Sample(1, 2);
    int sum = myTest.sum();
    System.out.println(sum);
 }
}