# 1.14 Calling Instance Methods

**Suggested Skills:** 2.C, 3.C

**LO 1.14.A** — Develop code to call instance methods and determine the result of these calls.

* **1.14.A.1** — **Instance methods** are called on objects of the class. The dot operator is used along with the object name to call instance methods.
* **1.14.A.2** — A method call on a `null` reference will result in a `NullPointerException`.