Exercises: A First Look at These values should be assigned to the
Classes and Objects object’s yearModel and make fields. The
Prof. Carolina Peña-Ortega
Reference: chapters 3, 4 and 5 of Gaddis’s
textbook (Starting out with Java)
For each exercise, you must do the UML diagram for the
class, flowcharts for each method and write the Java
code.
1. (Employee Class). Write a class named
Employee that has the following fields:
• name. The name field is a String object
that holds the employee’s name.
• idNumber. The idNumber is an int
variable that holds the employee’s ID number.
• department. The department field is a
String object that holds the name of the
department where the employee works.
• position. The position field is a
String object that holds the employee’s job
title.
Write appropriate mutator methods that store values
in these fields and accessor methods that return the
values in these fields. Once you have the written the
class, write a separate program that creates three
Employee objects to hold the following data.
Name ID Number Department Position
Susan Meyers 47899 Accounting Vice President
Mark Jones 39119 IT Programmer
Joy Rogers 81774 Manufacturing Engineer
The program should store this data in the three
objects and then display the data for each employee
on the screen.
2. (Car Class). Write a class named Car that has the
following fields:
 yearModel. The yearModel field is an
int that holds the car’s year model.
 make. The make field is a String object
that holds the make of the car.
 speed. The speed field is an int that
holds the car’s current speed.
In addition, the class should have the following
methods.
 Constructor. The constructor should accept
the car’s year model and make as arguments.
constructor should also assign 0 to the
speed field.
 Accessor. The appropriate accessor methods
get the values stored in an object’s
yearModel, make, and speed fields.
 accelerate. The accelerate method
should add 5 to the speed field each time it
is called.
 brake. The brake method should subtract
5 from the speed field each time it is
called.
Demonstrate the class in a program that creates a
Car object, and then calls the accelerate
method five times. After each call to the
accelerate method, get the current speed of
the car and display it. Then, call the brake
method five times. After each call to the
brake method, get the current speed of the car
and display it.
3. (Temperature Class).Write a Temperature class
that will hold a temperature in Fahrenheit and
provide methods to get the temperature in
Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. The class should
have the following field:
 ftemp. A double that holds a Fahrenheit
temperature.
The class should have the following methods:
 Constructor. The constructor accepts a
Fahrenheit temperature (as a double) and
stores it in the ftemp field.
 setFahrenheit. The setFahrenheit
method accepts a Fahrenheit temperature (as
a double) and stores it in the ftemp
field.
 getFahrenheit. Returns the value of the
ftemp field, as a Fahrenheit temperature
(no conversion required).
 getCelsius. Returns the value of the ftemp
field converted to Celsius.
 getKelvin. Returns the value of the ftemp
field converted to Kelvin.
Use the following formula to convert the
Fahrenheit temperature to Celsius:
Celsius = (5/9) (Fahrenheit - 32)
Use the following formula to convert the
Fahrenheit temperature to Kelvin:
 Kelvin = ((5/9) (Fahrenheit - 32)) + 273
Demonstrate the Temperature class by
writing a separate program that asks the user for
a Fahrenheit temperature. The program should
create an instance of the Temperature class,
with the value entered by the user passed to the
constructor. The program should then call the
object’s methods to display the temperature in
Celsius and Kelvin.
4. (TestScores Class). Design a TestScores
class that has fields to hold three test scores. The
class should have accessor and mutator methods for
the test score fields and a method that returns the
average of the test scores. Demonstrate the class by
writing a separate program that creates an instance
of the class. The program should ask the user to
enter three test scores, which are stored in the
TestScores object. Then the program should
display the average of the scores, as reported by the
TestScores object.
5. (Other TestScores Class). Design a distance in air is:
TestScores class that has fields to hold three test
scores. The class constructor should accept three test
scores as arguments and assign these arguments to
the test score fields. The class should also have
accessor methods for the test score fields, a method
that returns the average of the test scores, and a
method that returns the letter grade that is assigned
for the test score average. Use the grading scheme in
the following table.
Test Score Average Letter Grade
90–100 A
80–89 B 8. (Distance Traveled). The distance a vehicle travels
70–79 C can be calculated as follows:
60–69 D
Below 60
E
6. (Running the Race). Design a class that stores the
names of three runners and the time, in minutes, it
took each of them to finish a race. The class should
have methods that return the name of the runner in
1st, 2nd, or 3rd place.
7. (The Speed of Sound). The following table shows the
approximate speed of sound in air, water, and steel.
Design a class that stores in a distance field the
distance, in feet, traveled by a sound wave.
The class should have the appropriate accessor and
mutator methods for this field. In addition, the class
should have the following methods:
 getSpeedInAir. This method should return the
number of seconds it would take a sound wave to
travel, in air, the distance stored in the distance field.
The formula to calculate the amount of time it will
take the sound wave to travel the specified distance
in air is:
Time = distance/1100
 getSpeedInWater. This method should return
the number of seconds it would take a sound wave to
travel, in water, the distance stored in the distance
field. The formula to calculate the amount of time it
will take the sound wave to travel the specified
distance in water is:
Time = distance/4900
 getSpeedInSteel. This method should return the
number of seconds it would take a sound wave to
travel, in steel, the distance stored in the distance
field. The formula to calculate the amount of time it
will take the sound wave to travel the specified
Time = distance/16400
Write a program to demonstrate the class. The
program should display a menu allowing the user to
select air, water, or steel. Once the user has made a
selection, he or she should be asked to enter the
distance a sound wave will travel in the selected
medium. The program will then display the amount
of time it will take. Check that the user has selected
one of the available choices from the menu.
Distance = Speed * Time
For example, if a train travels 40 miles per hour (mph)
for three hours, the distance traveled is 120 miles.
Design a class that stores the speed of a vehicle (in miles
per hour) and the number of hours it has traveled. It
should have a method named getDistance that
returns the distance, in miles, that the vehicle has
traveled.
Demonstrate the class in a program that uses a loop to
display the distance a vehicle has traveled for each hour
of a time period specified by the user. For example, if a
vehicle is traveling at 40 mph for a three-hour time
period, it should display a report similar to the one
shown here.

Hour Distance Traveled

1 40
2 80
3 120

Input Validation: Do not accept a negative number

for speed, and do not accept any value less than one
for time traveled.

9. (Population). Write a class that will predict the size

of a population of organisms. The class should store
the starting number of organisms, their average daily
population increase (as a percentage), and the
number of days they will multiply. The class should
have a method that uses a loop to display the size of
the population for each day.

Test the class in a program that asks the user for the
starting size of the population, their average daily
increase, and the number of days they will multiply.
The program should display the daily population.

Input Validation: Do not accept a number less than

2 for the starting size of the population. Do not
accept a negative number for average daily
population increase. Do not accept a number less
than 1 for the number of days they will multiply.