Java/C3/Using-final-keyword/English

Title of script: USING FINAL KEYWORD

Author: Trupti Rajesh Kini

Keywords: video tutorial, final keyword, final variable, final method, final class

Visual Cue	Narration
Slide 1	Welcome to the spoken-tutorial on Using final keyword.
Slide 2	In this tutorial we will learn about the final keyword and when to invoke it. We will also learn about - final variables, final methods, final classes
Slide 3 Software Requirements	To record this tutorial, I am using Ubuntu Linux version 12.04 JDK 1.7 Eclipse 4.3.1
Slide 4 Prerequisites	To follow this tutorial, you must have, Basic knowledge of Java and Eclipse IDE. and knowledge of Subclassing and Method overriding. If not, for relevant Java tutorials, please visit our website.
Slide 5 final keyword	First of all, we will learn what final keyword is. final is a keyword or reserved word in Java. It can be applied to variables, methods and classes.
What is final variable? Slide 6	Now, let us learn what final variable is. final variable is a variable whose value cannot be changed. That is, it will be a constant.
Go to the Eclipse IDE >> Click on MyProject	I am switching to Eclipse IDE now. I had already created a project named MyProject in the previous tutorial.
Go to the Employee class	So we will directly go to the Employee class of the project.
Point to the variable name	Come to the variable called name.
Type final keyword	Add final keyword before the variable name. We have made the variable name as final.
Type sneha	We will initialize the variable name with value sneha.
Save and Run the program.	We will Save and Run the program.
Highlight the error cannot assign a value to final variable name name=newName;	We get compilation error. The final field Employee.name cannot be assigned
	This is because here the final variable is already declared and initialised. We can initialize a final variable only once. So we will comment the method setName which modifies the variable name. Save the class
Go to TestEmployee class->main method Type // before manager.setName("Nikkita Dinesh");	Now, come to TestEmployee class. Come to the main method and comment the line manager.setName("Nikkita Dinesh"); We commented this line as it was instance of method setName. We have already commented setName method in Employee class.
Save and Run the program.	Now lets Save the class and Run the program.
Highlight the output Name: Sneha Email: abc@gmail.com Manager of: Accounts	Great!!! We got the output, Name: Sneha Email: abc@gmail.com Manager of: Accounts
	We got this output as we already initialized variables with these values in TestEmployee class and Employee class.
Go to Employee class->variable name	Go to the Employee class. Now come to the final variable name. in Employee class.
Remove the initialization “sneha”	Remove the initialization of final variable name. That is remove “sneha”.
Go to the method setName Uncomment the method.	Uncomment the method setName.
Save and run the program.	Save and Run the program.
Highlight the error cannot assign a value to final variable name name=newName;	We get the error, The final field Employee.name cannot be assigned
	This is because if the final variable is not initialised, then only constructor can initialize it. That is it cannot be modified anywhere else in the program.
Go to Employee class	For that, let’s create a constructor in the Employee class. We have already learnt what a constructor is earlier.
	We know that constructor has the same name as class name.
Type, Employee() { name="Sneha"; }	SO we will type Employee, parentheses, open and close curly brackets and inside the curly brackets, lets initialize the variable name with value Sneha.
Point to the method setName Enclose the method inside /* */	Comment the method setName.
Save and Run the program.	Save and Run the program.
Highlight the output Name: Sneha Email: abc@gmail.com Manager of: Accounts	We got the desired output.
	final variable is successfully initialized in a constructor.
	Now we will learn about final static variables.
Go to the Employee class	Come to the final variable in Employee class.
Type static before final keyword	Add static keyword before final keyword We have made the final variable as static.
Save & Run the program.	Save and Run the program.
Highlight the error cannot assign a value to final variable name name="Sneha";	We get error. The final field Employee.name cannot be assigned
slides and document is not synchronized from this point and onward. Further slide 9.1 and 9.2 [i.e. 25,26] contains one extra word block in second bullet,doneSlide 7	This is because static final variables cannot be initialized in the constructor. They must be assigned a value with their declaration. Or they must be declared in a static block.
Slide 8	static variables are shared among all the objects of a class. Creating a new object would change the static variable. This is not allowed if the static variable is final
Go to Eclipse IDE	Switch back to Eclipse IDE.
Go to the Employee class ->constructor Delete Employee and type static.	So now we will create a static block. For that, in the Employee class, go to the constructor. we created Here instead of Employee(), we will type static. We have created a static block.
Now we will Save and Run the program.	Now we will Save and Run the program.
Highlight the output, Name: Sneha Email: abc@gmail.com Manager of: Accounts	We got the desired output, We have successfully initialized static final variable.
	Now let’s use final variable as a parameter to the method.
Go to the method setEmail	Come to the method setEmail. in Employee class.
Type final before String newEmail	Add final keyword before String newEmail We have made the parameter as final.
Save and Run the program.	Save and Run the program.
Highlight the output Name: Sneha Email: abc@gmail.com Manager of: Accounts	We got the desired output,
Type newEmail="kinitrupti@gmail.com";	Now, come to the method setEmail. Inside the method we will type, newEmail is equal to inside double quotes abc@gmail.com semicolon.
Save & Run the program.	Once again Save & Run the program.
Highlight the error, final parameter newEmail may not be assigned	We will get a compilation error. “final parameter newEmail may not be assigned”
	This is because final variable as parameter to a method cannot be modified by that method. <<PAUSE>>
	Now let’s learn about final method.
Go to Employee class Go to the method setEmail	Come back to the Employee class. Go to the method setEmail.
Point to the newEmail initialization remove newEmail="kinitrupti@gmail.com";	Let’s remove the newEmail initialization.
Go to the method getDetails	Go to the method getDetails.
Type final keyword before getDetails.	Add final keyword before getDetails to make it final.
Save and Run the program.	And as before, Save and Run the program.
Point to the compilation error, Cannot override the final method from Employee	We get compilation error, “Cannot override the final method from Employee.”
	This is because if you make any method as final, you cannot override it.
Slide 9	What if final method is private? private methods are not inherited by the child class. So we can add a method getDetails() in the child class. You can try this as an assignment.
Go to Eclipse IDE	Let us switch back to Eclipse IDE.
Go to Employee class	Now, let us see whether constructor can be declared as final or not. Come to the Employee class.
Type, Employee() { name="Sneha"; }	Let us create a constructor again as Employee. Type Employee, parentheses, open and close curly brackets Inside the brackets, we will declare name as Sneha.
	Remove static keyword.
Type final before the constructor	Add final before the constructor.
Save and run the program.	Save and run the program.
Highlight compilation error, modifier final not allowed here	We get a compilation error once again. “modifier final not allowed here”
	This is because constructor cannot be final since constructors are not inherited.
	Next, let us learn about final class.
Go the Employee class	Go to the Employee class.
Type final keyword before the class Employee.	Add final keyword before the class Employee.
Save and Run the program.	Save and Run the program.
Highlight the compilation error, The type Manager cannot subclass the final class Employee	We get the compilation error again. The error msg says- “The type Manager cannot subclass the final class Employee.”
Slide 10	This is because if you make any class as final, you cannot extend it.
Remove the keyword final before Employee class	Remove the keyword final before Employee class.
Save and Run the program.	Now Save and Run the program.
Highlight the output,	This time we get the output, Name: Sneha Email: abc@gmail.com Manager of: Accounts <<PAUSE>>
	Let us summarize.
Slide 11 Summary	In this tutorial we have learnt: When to invoke final keyword. What are: final variables, final methods and final classes
Slide 12 Assignment	As an assignment Are you sure about the name of the tutorial? Pls chkThe bike vehicle was given as an assignment in the previous tutorial. We need to frame it properly.Pls frame it properly.doneRepeat the steps of Using final keyword tutorial for the Bike and Vehicle class. Write down the classes in java that are final classes.
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Slide 15 Acknowledgement	Spoken Tutorial Project is a part of the Talk to a Teacher project It is supported by the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India More information on this Mission is available at http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT- Intro This is Trupti Kini from IIT Bombay signing off. Thanks for joining.

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