1) Create class Cat  Add properties  What characteristics do they have?  Name, age, color, type (domestic / feral), etc.  What color(s) might they have?  White, cream, fawn, Cinnamon, Chocolate, Red, Lilac, Blue, Black, Lavender, etc.  Add methods  eat(), play(), etc.  Constructors?  A class provides a special type of methods, known as constructors, which are invoked to construct objects from the class  Create 2 different constructor with different initialization parameters  How to get the number of cats? Add a static variable and a static method  Test Cat class by creating 2 Cat instances

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1) Create class Cat
 Add properties
 What characteristics do they have?
 Name, age, color, type (domestic / feral), etc.
 What color(s) might they have?
 White, cream, fawn, Cinnamon, Chocolate, Red, Lilac, Blue, Black,
Lavender, etc.
 Add methods
 eat(), play(), etc.
 Constructors?
 A class provides a special type of methods, known as constructors, which are
invoked to construct objects from the class
 Create 2 different constructor with different initialization parameters
 How to get the number of cats?
Add a static variable and a static method
 Test Cat class by creating 2 Cat instances

 
2) create a class AbstractCat with the same
properties and methods as Cat...
 Create class AbstractCat.
 How to secure data?
To protect it from direct access and manipulation from outside of the class
we need to make our instance data fields private.
 To let clients still manipulate data under our control we can provide them
public getters and setters.
 create getters, setters, constructors and toString()
 Test AbstractCat class
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