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On 4/27/2012 4:20 PM, Justin Fondriest wrote:
>
> Ok...so is this saying "a car has an engine", with regard to code
> would be more like "a car (class)"--as in every car class--"has an
> engine(object)"?

This is more or less correct.  Don't forget that the engine is also a 
class, and not an object, until you instantiate the Car, then you have 
both a Car object and an Engine object;

class Car {
   Engine engine = new Engine();
}

There's no objects in the above code until someone calls "new Car()".

>
>
> Now whether I am right or wrong...could someone take maybe 3 minutes
> to explain what composition is in layman's terms?

You were pretty close.

>
> does it have anything to do with the "import" feature that you put in
> a program before you "instantiate"(?) the class?

Nope, not a darn thing.