Class question for Class
I'm a dumb novice and have an assingment for school...
I have to write a program that stores, manipulates and print student info
I have to write 2 classes Student and Admisions. Student will have the fields I need and Admissions will manipulate the data.
Student must have the following fields - Name , Address, Date (as Classes) and ID (as a string variable identifing the student)
My question is if Student is supposed to be a class and also it's fields are to be classes, how do I write those classes(fields) under the class Student (are they supposed to be methods of the class student, is that what they mean?) Or do I just write other classes within the class Student ?
Can someone show me an example how Name should be written within Student ? (Name is to have fields FirstName and LastName)
Help!!!!!
> My question is if Student is supposed to be a class
> and also it's fields are to be classes, how do I
> write those classes(fields) under the class Student
public class Student {
private String name;
private Date date;
etc.
}
> (are they supposed to be methods of the class
> student, is that what they mean?)
No. The fields will be objects (well references to objects, actually). You might have get/set methods to access those fields, but the fields themselves are just variables of the appropriate type.
> Or do I just write
> other classes within the class Student ?
You don't define those classes inside Student. Student will use String, Date, and possibly other classes defined elsewhere--either in the core API, or by you. (Looks like just cor API here, but I didn't look that closely.)
jverda at 2007-7-14 23:05:59 >
The Student class will have the objects of those class as members.
public class Name {
private String firstName;
private String lastName;
public void setFirstName(String firstName) {
this.firstName = firstName;
}
public String getFirstName() {
return this.firstName;
}
public void setLastName(String lastName) {
this.lastName = lastName;
}
public String getLastName() {
return this.lastName;
}
}
public class Student {
private String id;
private Name name;
private Address address;
private Date date;
// Rest of the code...
}
There would be a similar class for address
