Probably an easily answered noob question about Java structure

[stark pilot]

So a while ago I wrote a program on paper and now I want to implement it. I have many methods each defined on their own page. What I am trying to figure out is, do I just define these methods one after another in a single document? Or should each one be in a self-contained file?

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[waxen pagoda]

You can define methods one after the other outside of your main method and call them from main, but they will be static methods.
If you create another class, you must create an object to invoke each method, generally.

methods are defined up top above the main method and called within the main method on bottom.

hope this helps

[narrow wyvern]

you can define methods anywhere tho

but it's recommended to put them above main for some reason

like what we had in c/cpp

[stray sundial]

Methods need to be defined directly inside a class. That's not quite "anywhere"

[narrow wyvern]

well, anywhere withtin the class body and outside of other method bodies

[stray sundial]

constructors, initializers, variable declaration initializing expressions...

[narrow wyvern]

and other shit

[old inlet]

anywhere directly in a type body

[old inlet]

if you want to implement something in java, a spec of functions is generally not enough, since java is so heavily and fundamentally OOP. you could make all your method static in the main method to kinda disregard OOP, but then you may as well not use java.

i think you should go back to your design and add OOP, then you can implement that more directly into java.

https://dev.java/learn/oop