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On 7/22/2011 4:12 PM, Chad wrote:
> What I don't get is why the book defines stuff like getXCoordinate(),
> getYCoordinate(), and getInterval() when it doesn't even use them


Dead code is often a fact of life.  OTOH, some reasonable reasons might be:

Those methods are called by a unit test harness, which is not shown.

Those methods are used elsewhere in a different code base, and this 
class is a general purpose class developed by the author as part of his 
text book.

You might look ahead and see if this class appears again in the book, 
maybe with the "unused" methods invoked there.