Instantiation question

["Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)" <ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What does the following statement do in java:

Student show = new Student();

Student is a class that has methods that returns info like studentId.  So I
have a method named getStudentId() that returns an int.

In my program I reference the method getStudentId() as show.getStudentId
after I do the above instantiation.  Why do I have to do this vs. doing
something like Student.getStudentId?

Does my question make sense?  I didn't want to include the whole programs as
attachments.

Aaron Bartell
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