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Totally agree! I'm going through a java programming class right now, and since the books we use are like "Hey! you already know everything about Java? Then read me!" I just simply read the tasks, then go to Alex channel to accually understand what the heck i'm supposed to do
@@andreassjo7268 I am doing the same thing, I'm doing a video game course and the guy said that it's better to learn the bulk of programming first then to start working on an engine. But he explains so quickly and sometimes he just comes with a new thing and says: Just copy it, like no man, I wanna know what it means so it can be in my head forever.
well "static" makes sense, because it does mean standing still: its in a fixed position in memory and its impossible for it to be instanced like with non static fields
@@hyphen8d725 instance means it’s well... an instance of maybe a method, or variable. It can change based on the new object you created. We could have a static variable that all car objects have 4 wheels. An instance variable could be the color or model of the car.
It means ! Let's say you have a class : class Car { static int a=0;. } So if you create 2 object of this class : Car c1 = new Car(); Car c1 = new Car(); The two object have a variable a = 3 right ?!!; Let's do this : c1.a= 1; // that's mean the variable a in the object 1 changed to value 3 ! Yes ! But since we put static keyword to the variable a another thing happen ! all variable a changed to value 3 ! So if we do this : System.out.println (c2.a)// we will see : 3 And also if we create a new object ; Car c3 = new Car() c3.a // by default equal 3! That's mean not only the variable on object 1 changed!!! But the variable in the class changed also and that's what really mean static keyword I hope you all understand
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Yes... Don't quit bro. Usually I don't comment in tutorials but your tutorials did make me comment. Because your way of teaching is simply and straight to the point. Keep up the Good wok.
Another great tutorial. I am at Florida Tech and I am a noob. They say they are structured to help all levels, but they are used to people from all over the world that have been doing this stuff for years. Your basic explanations really help! Thank you!
Static as in the same value wherever it's used. The static keyword essentially tells the program that the object, variable, or method doesn't need an instance of it's parent class to be accessed.
Static only exist when/while the program runs. Came here to touch upon what I know already, but I can honestly say this is the best tutoring channel that I've come across!
Awesome tutorial with great explanation, this is definitely a confusing concept and you make it easier to understand! BTW, static or "stand still" does make sense...the static variable can be used to refer to the common property of all objects (i.e. not unique for each object). For example, the college name of every student for a particular college. Suppose there are 100 students in my college, now all instance data members will get memory each time when the object is created. All students have its unique name, studentID, SSN, etc, so there is an instance variable for each student object. But, "college" refers to the common property of all objects. If we make it static, this field will get the memory only once. Since the static variable gets memory only once in the class area at the time of class loading, it has the advantage to make your program memory efficient (i.e., it saves memory).
Yes. This. This video would be good to be extended a bit to explain this. Static is used in classes when using inheritance too. Say you have a 'car' superclass and then classes of specific cars as subclasses. Well, (yes I know this wouldn't be necessary in reality) each car has 4 wheels so you could have a 'static int wheels = 4;' in the car superclass. It would be, as explained above, called one time into memory when the superclass is called and then each class for individual cars would be able to reference that without calling it EVERY time one of their individual car objects is called. That is nice for memory. Also, saves a little code. Hopefully that helped expand this idea.
+++ if you want to count the number of object created for that class having static variable , you can increment that static count =0 value each time you create an object and those changes will be reflected for every object you'll create , so let's say static count=0; but you created 1st object and it got incremented it by 1(by using a function) that is now count=1; so next time when you'll create 2nd object the count will become 2; So this variable occupies single space in the memory and it is shared among every object of that class, so changes made by one object will be reflected back for every object.
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When instantiating an object you make a copy of only the non-static methods and attributes of that class but, the static part "attributes/methods/other" is excluded from the instantiated objects and remains unique to the class itself "only one reference exists". This makes it a great way to store metadata about your class and its instances. So normal variables are copied each time you instantiate a new object but static variables are only created once at the class declaration hence the keyword static. Also thanks for bringing this up this helped me dusting off some cobwebs somewhere in my brain :).
Same! Through my advanced algorithms class, I literally had no idea when to or not to put the static keyword, but I fumbled around so much with it until I finished my work without knowing exactly what the hell static was meant to do!
I'm taking a java class right now and i ALWAYS go to your channel after every lecture to have it reexplained by you. You make it so much easier to understand!
i loved how you say on the beginning of the video exactly what a was expecting to learn while whatching. No other video gave the importance to why/when use the 'static' Keyword. Excelent video and teaching.
Thank you again for your great videos, Alex! As far as I know, you can change a static variable. Like if you have a method in your class, and also a static variable a=0, you can, for example, make a++ in your method and your static variable will actually change to 1. If you call again the same method (which increases your a), the method will no longer see a equal to 0 (even tho you had static int a=0), but to 1, so after the method increases your a again, you will actually have a=2; Also, if you have a function, let's say int add(int a){ static int b=10; a=a+b; b++; return a;}. The first time you call the function, it will use b=10; the next time you call the function, it will actually use b=11 (the increased b), even tho at the beginning of the function you say static int b=10; Hope I'm not saying wrong things.
Yes pretty much. Static means it belongs to the class and not to any instance. All instances share it. Only one copy of it exists. So if you changed the value, it would change for all instances. But you cant define static variables inside a method so your method int add(int a){ static int b=10; a=a+b; b++; return a;} would give an error because you tried to define static int b inside it.
simple and sufficient! thank you for this. Although I'd like to add a point, there's another difference between using the keyword "static" and creating an object to access the variable. When you make a variable "static", and change its value in any method, it changes throughout the entire class. However, when you create an object then access the variable from it and alter its value, it will only change for that specific object, not for the entire class. Hope this helps :)
This guy doesn't miss! Most tutorials on RUclips regurgitate the same things your professor said, but with more examples. It's all computer science theory, lacking practicality. However, Alex answers the questions you type in the search box lol
Aleex, you are so honest, humble person. I like you. This static was not clear for me too. I am soo happy to have you as a teacher. Keep teaching and share your experience.
Hey man, I usually wont comment for any youtube video but i cant stop myself from commenting to ur video. Im new to java and this error u mentioned above(cannot make static reference to non static field...) has been cracking my head for weeks and was really happy to get a soln from ur video. Keep rocking....
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Thanks for the precise explanation with pratical example. Have searched elsewhere for a long time for a a clear explanation regarding for what static is for, but to no avail. Feel fortunate to have found you.
Nice Video! Another way to say it would be; a static variable can be accessed from the class itself normal variables can only be accessed from *instances* of that class. So a static can be accessed even when a class is not instantiated!
I used to avoid static because like you I thought it means its an unchanging fixed variable aka static, god this makes so much more sense now. Thank you
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Well, I was struggling with this concepts, and I stumbled across a couple of your vids, in this particular one I would recommend checking the video on Static Keyword by Telusko in youtube. This is not spam, I just think it's better explained there. What I understood from that other video summed up: -A static variable will have the same value for all the objects in a class(this is why I think static as a name might make more sense) -Opposite to object variables when you want to change a static variable value, you can call the variable by referencing the class instead of the object. EX: class Emp{ static String ceo; } Emp adrian = new Emp(); Now you can call ceo by: Emp.ceo = "Adrian"; Instead of: adrian.ceo = "Adrian" -The reason why you need to declare it as static it's because main it's also static. -You can create a "static block" in a class (static {//something}) and will be only called once regardless of how many objects you instantiate.
Yes. And another point is that you dont need to create any objects to use static variabe. In ur example you could access ceo variable even without creation of any objects.
thank you Alex really explained good this bastard static, I never was catching the definition of the static but now finally I got it especially when you named it global I was like "now all the pieces of the puzzle came together".
Just quick note from my side to clarify the topic. Please note that I am new in Java so I may understand it incorrectly or on the very beginning level, but the following scheme kind of helped me to finally make it clear and hope will help you as well. Class variables: non-static and static When you create non-static Class variable it does not actually mean that this one is saved in the memory cell of your program and you can access this cell from the other part of the code. But it will be saved only once you create an object of the Class, and number of these cells in the memory, which contain your non-static variable, will depend on number of created objects of this class (copies will be made for each object). And when you try to access the non-static variable you should do it through the object because it is actually saved only for each exact object and not for the Class itself. Static variable makes it easer because when you create it, at the same time you actually save it in the memory for this Class (not object since you may not have an object at this stage). But since it is already saved in the memory you can access it from any part of your code. If I am wrong (which I pretty much sure and real memory processing may be different:) please correct or comment!
"Changes made in an instance variable using one object will not be reflected in other objects as each object has its own copy of the instance variable. In the case of static, changes will be reflected in other objects as static variables are common to all objects of a class." Source - GeeksforGeeks i think this is why its called static
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It called 'Static' is because 'static' means the member is pointing to itself, rather than to an instance of object. Another word 'static' tells complier to run directly without creating object in the heap since everything needs to be an object in Java
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You can also use static if you need a variable that doesn't change. Like if you need the value of pi, and you define it as int pi = 3.14; it can be changed later on, however we don't want that, so we define it as static and that tells ide that it cannot be used elsewhere and value will remain the same
That was a nice explanation, I always had this doubt with static keyword. First I knew any variable that is static can be used directly in the without creating the class object and then secondly the issue was there was always a doubt about how things works with static in terms of accessing things. Like I thought static allowed for certain things to be accessed by certain other things.
Static means that any class can access it. Normal variables will be different for different instances, and static variables will be the same for the same runtime. If you want a variable that does’t change put ‘final’ before it.
this helped a lot with understanding this keyword, and how to implement it in my code. Now i don't need to creat so much object in my code te get it to work !
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Good vid! U showed the reason for the static creation, and how to use it. But that’s now the definition. Static means that you can’t instantiate it. You cant have multiple instances of it.
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"In the Java programming language, the keyword static means that the particular member belongs to a type itself, rather than to an instance of that type. This means we'll create only one instance of that static member that's shared across all instances of the class." That explained it pretty well to me, and why it's called 'static'. I means this variable is the same, not just in number but in the physical memory there is only one instance of it, for all the instances of the class.
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Totally agree! I'm going through a java programming class right now, and since the books we use are like "Hey! you already know everything about Java? Then read me!" I just simply read the tasks, then go to Alex channel to accually understand what the heck i'm supposed to do
@@andreassjo7268 I am doing the same thing, I'm doing a video game course and the guy said that it's better to learn the bulk of programming first then to start working on an engine. But he explains so quickly and sometimes he just comes with a new thing and says: Just copy it, like no man, I wanna know what it means so it can be in my head forever.
Yeah, he even explains the origins of "static" and the other alternative to static. Truly an amazing person.
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well "static" makes sense, because it does mean standing still: its in a fixed position in memory and its impossible for it to be instanced like with non static fields
What do you mean by instanced?
@@hyphen8d725 to be used, so like lets say you have a class and you instanced it, that meant you did the usual Class a = new Class();
@@hyphen8d725 instance means it’s well... an instance of maybe a method, or variable. It can change based on the new object you created. We could have a static variable that all car objects have 4 wheels. An instance variable could be the color or model of the car.
It means ! Let's say you have a class :
class Car {
static int a=0;. }
So if you create 2 object of this class :
Car c1 = new Car();
Car c1 = new Car();
The two object have a variable a = 3 right ?!!;
Let's do this : c1.a= 1; // that's mean the variable a in the object 1 changed to value 3 ! Yes ! But since we put static keyword to the variable a another thing happen !
all variable a changed to value 3 ! So if we do this :
System.out.println (c2.a)// we will see : 3
And also if we create a new object ;
Car c3 = new Car()
c3.a // by default equal 3!
That's mean not only the variable on object 1 changed!!! But the variable in the class changed also and that's what really mean static keyword
I hope you all understand
@@ahmedtlm9488 "The two object have a variable a = 3 right ?!!;" u maybe wanted to say a = 0, cuz a was intialised with zero here "static int a=0;"
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Another great tutorial. I am at Florida Tech and I am a noob. They say they are structured to help all levels, but they are used to people from all over the world that have been doing this stuff for years. Your basic explanations really help! Thank you!
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Static as in the same value wherever it's used. The static keyword essentially tells the program that the object, variable, or method doesn't need an instance of it's parent class to be accessed.
Static only exist when/while the program runs.
Came here to touch upon what I know already, but I can honestly say this is the best tutoring channel that I've come across!
Awesome tutorial with great explanation, this is definitely a confusing concept and you make it easier to understand! BTW, static or "stand still" does make sense...the static variable can be used to refer to the common property of all objects (i.e. not unique for each object). For example, the college name of every student for a particular college. Suppose there are 100 students in my college, now all instance data members will get memory each time when the object is created. All students have its unique name, studentID, SSN, etc, so there is an instance variable for each student object. But, "college" refers to the common property of all objects. If we make it static, this field will get the memory only once. Since the static variable gets memory only once in the class area at the time of class loading, it has the advantage to make your program memory efficient (i.e., it saves memory).
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Yes. This. This video would be good to be extended a bit to explain this. Static is used in classes when using inheritance too. Say you have a 'car' superclass and then classes of specific cars as subclasses. Well, (yes I know this wouldn't be necessary in reality) each car has 4 wheels so you could have a 'static int wheels = 4;' in the car superclass. It would be, as explained above, called one time into memory when the superclass is called and then each class for individual cars would be able to reference that without calling it EVERY time one of their individual car objects is called. That is nice for memory. Also, saves a little code.
Hopefully that helped expand this idea.
+++ if you want to count the number of object created for that class having static variable , you can increment that static count =0 value each time you create an object and those changes will be reflected for every object you'll create ,
so let's say static count=0;
but you created 1st object and it got incremented it by 1(by using a function) that is now count=1;
so next time when you'll create 2nd object the count will become 2;
So this variable occupies single space in the memory and it is shared among every object of that class,
so changes made by one object will be reflected back for every object.
Im about to cry over here... the extra three steps you speak of have haunted my life for the past 3 years. Thank you so much for clearing that up!!! You got a thumbs up and sub from me bud!
I love this guy so much, he literally explains even the simplest of things and that too it's easy to understand whatever that he's explaining... My favorite content from Alex is the Nested For Loop explanation... Subscribed immediately... The best tutor I've ever seen on RUclips till date.
you are absolutely the best man, you're like my spirit animal, everyone you say and the way you describe things is detailed enough to where it's easy to understand and I can grasp the general concept and expand on it in my assignments/reading if i decide to read lmao.
When instantiating an object you make a copy of only the non-static methods and attributes of that class but, the static part "attributes/methods/other" is excluded from the instantiated objects and remains unique to the class itself "only one reference exists". This makes it a great way to store metadata about your class and its instances. So normal variables are copied each time you instantiate a new object but static variables are only created once at the class declaration hence the keyword static. Also thanks for bringing this up this helped me dusting off some cobwebs somewhere in my brain :).
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Same! Through my advanced algorithms class, I literally had no idea when to or not to put the static keyword, but I fumbled around so much with it until I finished my work without knowing exactly what the hell static was meant to do!
I'm taking a java class right now and i ALWAYS go to your channel after every lecture to have it reexplained by you. You make it so much easier to understand!
i loved how you say on the beginning of the video exactly what a was expecting to learn while whatching. No other video gave the importance to why/when use the 'static' Keyword. Excelent video and teaching.
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Thank you again for your great videos, Alex! As far as I know, you can change a static variable. Like if you have a method in your class, and also a static variable a=0, you can, for example, make a++ in your method and your static variable will actually change to 1. If you call again the same method (which increases your a), the method will no longer see a equal to 0 (even tho you had static int a=0), but to 1, so after the method increases your a again, you will actually have a=2; Also, if you have a function, let's say int add(int a){ static int b=10; a=a+b; b++; return a;}. The first time you call the function, it will use b=10; the next time you call the function, it will actually use b=11 (the increased b), even tho at the beginning of the function you say static int b=10; Hope I'm not saying wrong things.
Yes pretty much. Static means it belongs to the class and not to any instance. All instances share it. Only one copy of it exists. So if you changed the value, it would change for all instances.
But you cant define static variables inside a method so your method int add(int a){ static int b=10; a=a+b; b++; return a;} would give an error because you tried to define static int b inside it.
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simple and sufficient! thank you for this. Although I'd like to add a point, there's another difference between using the keyword "static" and creating an object to access the variable. When you make a variable "static", and change its value in any method, it changes throughout the entire class. However, when you create an object then access the variable from it and alter its value, it will only change for that specific object, not for the entire class. Hope this helps :)
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Aleex, you are so honest, humble person. I like you. This static was not clear for me too. I am soo happy to have you as a teacher. Keep teaching and share your experience.
Hey man, I usually wont comment for any youtube video but i cant stop myself from commenting to ur video. Im new to java and this error u mentioned above(cannot make static reference to non static field...) has been cracking my head for weeks and was really happy to get a soln from ur video. Keep rocking....
Hey Alex!
I'm JongUk Park(Brad Park) from South Korea.
First of all, I'm so happy about the fact that I found your channel on RUclips which is very helpful to me.
I really appreciate you for sharing your amazing video on tutorial for Java beginners like me.
All the best!
Cheers!
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Thanks for the precise explanation with pratical example. Have searched elsewhere for a long time for a a clear explanation regarding for what static is for, but to no avail. Feel fortunate to have found you.
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Thanks!
Nice Video!
Another way to say it would be;
a static variable can be accessed from the class itself
normal variables can only be accessed from *instances* of that class.
So a static can be accessed even when a class is not instantiated!
I used to avoid static because like you I thought it means its an unchanging fixed variable aka static, god this makes so much more sense now. Thank you
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Well, I was struggling with this concepts, and I stumbled across a couple of your vids, in this particular one I would recommend checking the video on Static Keyword by Telusko in youtube. This is not spam, I just think it's better explained there.
What I understood from that other video summed up:
-A static variable will have the same value for all the objects in a class(this is why I think static as a name might make more sense)
-Opposite to object variables when you want to change a static variable value, you can call the variable by referencing the class instead of the object. EX:
class Emp{
static String ceo;
}
Emp adrian = new Emp();
Now you can call ceo by:
Emp.ceo = "Adrian";
Instead of:
adrian.ceo = "Adrian"
-The reason why you need to declare it as static it's because main it's also static.
-You can create a "static block" in a class (static {//something}) and will be only called once regardless of how many objects you instantiate.
Yes. And another point is that you dont need to create any objects to use static variabe. In ur example you could access ceo variable even without creation of any objects.
thank you Alex really explained good this bastard static, I never was catching the definition of the static but now finally I got it especially when you named it global I was like "now all the pieces of the puzzle came together".
Static is that part of the code that executes first before any other part of code. Hope this additional bit of info helps too.
Just quick note from my side to clarify the topic.
Please note that I am new in Java so I may understand it incorrectly or on the very beginning level, but the following scheme kind of helped me to finally make it clear and hope will help you as well.
Class variables: non-static and static
When you create non-static Class variable it does not actually mean that this one is saved in the memory cell of your program and you can access this cell from the other part of the code.
But it will be saved only once you create an object of the Class, and number of these cells in the memory, which contain your non-static variable, will depend on number of created objects of this class (copies will be made for each object). And when you try to access the non-static variable you should do it through the object because it is actually saved only for each exact object and not for the Class itself.
Static variable makes it easer because when you create it, at the same time you actually save it in the memory for this Class (not object since you may not have an object at this stage). But since it is already saved in the memory you can access it from any part of your code.
If I am wrong (which I pretty much sure and real memory processing may be different:) please correct or comment!
"Changes made in an instance variable using one object will not be reflected in other objects as each object has its own copy of the instance variable. In the case of static, changes will be reflected in other objects as static variables are common to all objects of a class."
Source - GeeksforGeeks
i think this is why its called static
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It called 'Static' is because 'static' means the member is pointing to itself, rather than to an instance of object. Another word 'static' tells complier to run directly without creating object in the heap since everything needs to be an object in Java
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You can also use static if you need a variable that doesn't change. Like if you need the value of pi, and you define it as int pi = 3.14; it can be changed later on, however we don't want that, so we define it as static and that tells ide that it cannot be used elsewhere and value will remain the same
That was a nice explanation, I always had this doubt with static keyword. First I knew any variable that is static can be used directly in the without creating the class object and then secondly the issue was there was always a doubt about how things works with static in terms of accessing things. Like I thought static allowed for certain things to be accessed by certain other things.
I think it's called static because it's place in the memory doesn't change or something like that, not sure. Nice video BTW!
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Static means that any class can access it. Normal variables will be different for different instances, and static variables will be the same for the same runtime. If you want a variable that does’t change put ‘final’ before it.
@@zachm4389 static has nothing to with who can access the variable. If you do "private static int a", only it's own class can use it.
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As pretty much explained in the "Thinking in Java (4th edition)" book :)
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Good vid! U showed the reason for the static creation, and how to use it. But that’s now the definition. Static means that you can’t instantiate it. You cant have multiple instances of it.
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"In the Java programming language, the keyword static means that the particular member belongs to a type itself, rather than to an instance of that type.
This means we'll create only one instance of that static member that's shared across all instances of the class."
That explained it pretty well to me, and why it's called 'static'. I means this variable is the same, not just in number but in the physical memory there is only one instance of it, for all the instances of the class.
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