Java Instructor's Particulars 12: What to Call Fields

Java fields are referred to by various names depending on the teaching material, such as fields, field variables, instance ...

[Java Silver SE 17] Organizing the differences between classes and instances | A story about stumbling over reference variables

While studying for the Java Silver exam, I learned about "classes and instances" this time.Since this content also appeared ...
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Instance variables the new global variables?

I think everybody here can agree on that global variables are bad. However I wonder what people in general think of instance variables. Lately at work I have gotten frustrated with some really large ...