- Identifiers
-are tokens that represent names of variables, methods, classes, etc.
-Examples of identifiers are: Hello, main, System, out. - Java identifiers are case-sensitive.
-This means that the identifier Hello is not the same as hello. - Identifiers must begin with either a letter, an underscore “_”, or a dollar sign “$”. Letters may be lower or upper case. Subsequent characters may use numbers 0 to 9.
- Identifiers cannot use Java keywords like class, public, void, etc. We will discuss more about Java keywords later.
Coding Guidelines:
- For names of classes, capitalize the first letter of the class name. For example,
ThisIsAnExampleOfClassName - For names of methods and variables, the first letter of the word should start with a small letter. For example,
thisIsAnExampleOfMethodName
- In case of multi-word identifiers, use capital letters to indicate the start of the word except the first word. For example,
charArray, fileNumber, ClassName. - Avoid using underscores at the start of the identifier such as _read or _write.