Chapter 10 Thinking in Objects

10.8 Designing the course

Class

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Chapter 10 Thinking in Objects

10.8 Designing the course Class

Programming exercises 10.4 and a modified version of 10.12

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 10.8 Designing the course Class
UML Diagram of class Course + description of the methods.
Course

-name: String The name of the course.

-students: Student[ ] The students who take the course.
-numberOfStudents: int The number of students (default: 0).

+Course(name: String, size: int) Creates a Course with the specified name.
+getName( ): String Returns the course name.
+addStudent(student: Student): void Adds a new student to the course list.
+getStudents( ): Student[ ] Returns the students for the course.
+getNumberOfStudents( ): int Returns the number of students for the course.
+ print( ): void Outputs the data fields of the class.

In your textbook the type of the array students is String, but here we
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changed the type to Student to make the problem more interesting.
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 10.8 (Continued)
UML Diagram of classes Course and Student.

Course Student

-name: String
-id: int
-students: Student[ ]
-name: String
-numberOfStudents: int
+Students(id: int , name: String)
+Course(name: String, size: int)
+getId( ): int
+getName( ): String
+getName( ): String
+addStudent(student: Student): void
+setId(id: int ): void
+getStudents( ): Student[ ]
+setName(name: String): void
+getNumberOfStudents( ): int
+ print( ): void
+ print( ): void

In your textbook the type of the array students is String, but here we
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changed the type to Student to make the problem more interesting.
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public class Student {
Code of class
private int id;
private String name; Student
public Student(int id, String name) {
this.id = id;
this.name = name;
}
public int getId() {
return id;
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setId(int id) {
this.id = id;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public void print() {
System.out.println("id = " + id + ", name = " + name);
}
} 5
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public class Course {
Code of class
private String name;
private Student[] students; Course
private int numberOfStudents;

public Course(String name, int size) { // size is the array size

this.name = name;
numberOfStudents = 0;
students = new Student[size];
}

public void addStudent(Student student) {

if (numberOfStudents == students.length) // array/course is full
System.out.println("Cannot add more students. The section is full.");
else
{
students[numberOfStudents] = student;
numberOfStudents++;
}
}

public Student[] getStudents() {

return students;
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 public int getNumberOfStudents() { Code of class
}
return numberOfStudents;
Course
public String getName() { (Continued)
return name;
}

public void print() {

System.out.println("The course name is " + name);
System.out.println("The number of students is " + numberOfStudents);
System.out.println("The students registered in this course are: ");
for (int i = 0 ; i < numberOfStudents; i++)
students[i].print(); // calling the print( ) method of class Student
}

} // end class Course

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 Code of
public static void main(String[] args) {Application
public class Problem_10_9 {

Course course1 = new Course("Intermediate Programming with Objects", 6);

Student s1 = new Student(1, "A"); // create six students

Student s2 = new Student(2, "B");
Student s3 = new Student(3, "C");
Student s4 = new Student(4, "D");
Student s5 = new Student(5, "E");
Student s6 = new Student(6, "F");

course1.addStudent(s1); // add the six students to the course course1

course1.addStudent(s2);
course1.addStudent(s3);
course1.addStudent(s4);
course1.addStudent(s5);
course1.addStudent(s6);

course1.print(); // calling the print( ) method of class Course

}
} // end Application 8
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Java Projects
 You will find posted to Google Classroom with
this lecture the three java projects described
below:

 A Java project name CourseStudents containing

the code of the classes Student and Course along
with the application shown in slides 5 to 8.

 Two Java projects containing the code of

programming exercise 10.4 and a modified
version of programming exercise 10.12.
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