data type user?

Question

In Java course after you finish the hangman project and when you are doing the coding challenge:

Challenge Task 3 of 4 Okay so now let's work on ForumPost.java

Add a constructor to ForumPost which accepts a User named author, a String named title, and another String named description. Initialize the corresponding private fields.

You can create your own data types? take a look at the code below. I'm not understanding "User" set as a data type like String or int or boolean - Never heard about User and tried to google this and all I got was that you can create your own data types. If this is the case why wasn't this covered in the java course up to this point?

public class ForumPost {
  private User author;// <---- ???? what the heck is this User data type? 
  private String title;
  private String description;

  // TODO: add a constructor that accepts the author, title and description

  public ForumPost(User author, String  title, String description){
    this.author = author;
    this.title = title;
    this.description = description;
  }

Answer 1 · 2019-03-25T00:27:25Z

March 25, 2019 12:27am

It comes from Step 2, User.java

public class User {
  // TODO: add private fields for firstName and lastName
  private String firstName;
  private String lastName;

  public User(String firstName, String lastName) {
    // TODO: set and add the private fields
    this.firstName = firstName;
    this.lastName = lastName;

  }

  // TODO: add getters for firstName and lastName
  public String getFirstName (){
    return this.firstName;
  }

  public String getLastName(){
    return this.lastName;
  }

}

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