What does it mean to return a value?

Question

I\'m fairly new to programming, and I\'m confused about what it means exactly to return a value. At first, I thought it meant to output what value is being returned, but whe

Answer 1

In simple terms, it means to return the value to caller of the method...

So, in your example, the method getX would return the value of x to the caller, allowing them access to it.

class Class1{

    static int x = 3;

    public static int getX(){
        return x;
    }

    public static void main(String args[]){
        int myX = Class1.getX(); // return the value to the caller...
        System.out.println(myX); // print the result to the console...
    }
}