Methods driving me mad

[GrumpyBum]

Hi All,

I have been working all morning to make sense of methods but without defining a method as static I am getting really confused.

I have been testing with the following,

public class Methods {
	
	public static int staticMethod(int input) {
		input++;
		return input;
	}
	
	public int Methods(int input) {
		input++;
		System.out.println("HelloWorld");
		return input;
	}
	
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		int runNumber = 3;
		runNumber = staticMethod(runNumber);
		System.out.println(runNumber);
		
		Methods anotherNumber = new Methods();
		anotherNumber.Methods(2);
		System.out.println(anotherNumber);
	}
	
}

But I only can every get a memory location back from 'Methods', I cannot get a usable answer.
What am I doing so wrong?

This is the Output:

[Fubarable]

When you call your non-void method, you need to assign what is returned to a variable. You're doing this:

someMethod(2);

and are essentially tossing out any result returned by this method.

Instead, you should be doing this:

int someVariable = someMethod(2);

Then you can use the result that is held by the variable.

[GrumpyBum]

That does make perfect sense, I thought I tried that but I have just tried again and it has worked.
I thinks that I have been trying to work this out for long enough that I am making mistakes now.

 Methods anotherNumber = new Methods();
 int test = anotherNumber.Methods(2);
 System.out.println(test);

Time to take a break I think.

Thank you for your quick response.

[Fubarable]

You're quite welcome.

As an aside, what you were seeing printed before, Methods@19821f, was the String returned by Method's public toString() method. Since you didn't give Method this method (now that's confusing to say!), it uses the default toString() method of its parent class, Object, and this will return the class name, the '@' character and the object's hashCode. If you ever want to have an object's toString() method make sense, if you want to call System.out.println(myObject) and have it print out something that his helpful, you will want to give your class its own toString() method that returns a String that usually prints out one or more of the values held by the fields of the object.

[GrumpyBum]

Before I was getting Methods@12821f I was only getting compiler errors, this is actually my first time working with Methods and Constructors. I got the constructors first time so I was happy about that.