PezDispenser load method

The first load() method takes no parameters (as you can see, the parentheses are empty), and loads the max number. But what if you want to load less than the max?

Craig's solution is to write a second load() method, but this time he gives it an int parameter: the number of pez you want to load. The name of the parameter is not important. You can name it anything you want: numPez, numberOfPez, pezAmount, amountOfPez, x, y, hello, etc. But best practices say the name should be meaningful, and pezAmount is therefore better than x or y or hello. Technically it is just the name of an int variable. So to load 6 pez you would write:

load(6);

Having several methods with the same name in the same class with different method signatures, i.e., different number or type of parameters, is called overloading. A good example is the class that contains println(). There is also a println(int x), a println(double x), println(String s), println(boolean y), etc.

Once he has a method that will take any given number, Craig refactored the first one to call the second with MAX_PEZ, which is a number. This in an example of the DRY principle: not repeating the code in load(int x) in load().