•A variable is a named place to
hold a value
•local (inside method): Type
name
–160 Terminal terminal;
– 99 int charCount;
•instance (inside class): access
Type name
–23 private Date createDate;
–25 private String contents;
•“field” and “instance variable”
are synonyms
•parameters (in method
declaration): Type name
–74 public
void append (String
text);