Instantiating object from inside the main of that class in Java

Question

I was looking through my OOP class documentation and I found this example:

class Student {
    private String name;
    public int averageGrade;


    public         


        

Answer 1

No, it's not bad practice. It's actually fairly frequent. What you missed is that main is a static method. It's not a method of the Student object. It's a method of the Student class. You don't invoke it with someStudent.main(...), but with Student.main(...).

See http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/classvars.html for more explanations.