Creating A Constructor Without Private Implementations Only Methods?
Jul 14, 2014
I thought you can only create a new object using private implementations and then using a constructor to set your arguments inside the parameters of the constructor to the instance variables but how come he created an object without any private implementations and just methods inside the constructor.
import javax.swing.JFrame;
public class MyWindow extends JFrame {
public static void main(String[]args){
new MyWindow();
}
public MyWindow(){
setSize(500,500);
setVisible(true);
setTitle("MyWindow");
}
}
When creating a class with a constructor, why does one have to create private variables (attributes) to be used as parameters by the object? The object's parameters will be set to be exactly equal to the private variables (attributes), so what is the point of having the private variables (attributes) Why are both private variables (attributes) and parameters needed when they are set to be equal each other anyway?
I am able to get output from my constructor when I place a loop inside of it. However when I try to access the private variable that I thought was set by the constructor I get nothing. When I check its size it is zero as well.
Java Code:
public class WinningHand extends PokerCalculator { private int p1Size; private int p2Size; private String[] p1Hand = new String[p1Size]; private String[] p2Hand = new String[p2Size];
The first is clear , new Person().printPerson(); displays Person but for the second : new Student().printPerson(); it accesses the Student constructor that points to the Person class => object. It builds the Person instance then goes back to the Student constuctor .Both methods are private and to my knowledge invisible one to the other , except that you cant run the the Person one because it's private so the only one in the Student class is the Student one . Guess it 's incorrect , but why ? (is because private methods cant be overriden and somehow the super class one always has priority ? , even if it's private?)
public class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { new Person().printPerson(); new Student().printPerson();
so, i was reading my java book and learning about objects and methods and it starts talking about Encapsulation and mentions that it's good practice to set instance variables as private and instead of accessing the instance variables directly, we should create a set method and get method to get and set the stuff we want to pass to the class containing the object...
for example, in this class, we're passing the integer 70 for object dog one and integer 8 for object dog two for the dog class... and these these 2 integers are sent to the setsize method so we're not accessing instance variable size directly.
i dont quite get it though....if we the programmer are the one deciding what size the integer is for the dog, and the setsize method takes the one.setSize(70) or (8) and puts them in setsize(int s) as s... but only to copy that integer stored in s back to private int size.... why do we even need to bother with making these two extra methods such as setSize, getSize?
in the book it says that... well what if the code gets into the wrong hand and someone writes something like one.setSize(0) then you would get a dog with size 0 which is essentially illogical. but then again, i'm the programmer, and i am the person who writes the code and passing the right integer.The reason for public and private... that part i understand... i can see why if a variable's data can get changed amidst the code during calculations and you dont want it to directly change the original variable and have it mess up the code, but this code from the book just a bad example of demonstrating the reason? since we manually pass the information ourselves and passing it to method setSize... and all setSize does is stores it in another integer, only to copy it right away to size (which is the original private variable we were tryign to protect?
Any simple code to demonstrate how the code might end up changing an instance variable and why we would want to protect it by using private?
class GoodDog { private int size; public int getSize() { return size; } public void setSize(int s) { size = s;
If i have a class(lets say class name is Approval) with the following private members: String recip_id, Int accStat, String pDesc, String startDate How can i create public get and setter methods for these private members of the class?
I am wondering if there is a way in jave to use enums WITHIN a class (without creating a separate enum class) without using private static final. Something like as folows:
class My Class { myEnum {ACTIVE, INACTIVE, PENDING}; }
class GenericQueue<E> { private LinkedList<E> list = new LinkedList<E>(); public void push(E element) { list.addFirst(element); } public E pull() { return list.removeLast();
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Is a constructor required to create an object, if one of its instance or class variables haven't been instantiated? Like private String string;
I want to create a simple app that takes a name from the console then compares the name to a small phone book,when the name matches another name it will return the associated phone number.
I have a small contacts class which has name and number fields,Then I have a phone book class which populates an array with 4 contact objects that I can compare the entered number against.
here is my contacts class
public class Contact { String name; int number;
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In the main method I am just trying to print out one of the fields for one contact to see if I can actually access it to compare it to the name entered.Its saying "MaryJones" cannot be resolved to a type.I'm guessing I cant create all that code in the constructor?
import java.util.ArrayList; public class LectureRoom{ private String courseName; private String roomNumber; private String Lecturer; private ArrayList <Student> studentList;
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Question:
Given the following BlueJ class diagram
Lecturer class (same with previous lab, no changes needed) Student class (same with previous lab, no changes needed)
LectureRoom (changes occurs here)
1. LectureRoom has roomNumber (e.g. A301), courseName (e.g. Java), lecturer (a reference to a Lecturer object), and studentList (a reference to an ArrayList that stores Student object). 2. LectureRoom has a constructor that receives courseName, roomNumber, and Lecturer. The constructor then sets/assign the courseName, roomNumber and Lecturer. This constructor also creates the studentList arraylist object.
Its written that every constructor calls its super class constructor. And we know, constructors are called to create an object. Does it mean that if I am creating an object of a class, I am actually creating objects of all its super class???
The one problem in my book was to create a constructor for different shirt features, which I did and ran successfully. Out of curiosity, I also added other methods to see if it would run if the parameters were different from the constructor. It keeps giving me a constructor error. So, my question is, am I able to create a class that uses a constructor with parameters and other methods without errors? I'm guessing there's no reason to since it would be wasted space since the constructor could do it but was just curious if it's possible.
Is everything from the constructor down (in the class) and Shirt.oneShirt (in the main) just a waste of time?
Here's my example:
public class Shirt//class name. { int collarSize;//data field. int sleeveLength;//data field. int pocketNumber;//data field public final static String MATERIAL = "cotton";//final data field for material. public Shirt(int collarSize, int sleeveLength, int pocketNumber)//start of constructor. {
public class demo { Public class static void main(String[]args) { //Creating a variable that will be a reference to the object Peoples person_one;
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I have assembled this code below that has a void method which will creat a new object. Problem I encounter is that in
Create_object(person_one);
the person_one has an error saying not initialized. I'm jus trying to learn on my own ways here and practice so may know what's wrong with this? I know I can use a return object from methods but what about this approach?
I want to make a program where users are prompted to enter a username and a password and have these two values create a new instance of the Object User. But I'm not sure where to start.
import java.util.Scanner; public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) { createUser();
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how to take username + password and put it into an object.
So I have this class containing all my Enum types, also including methods for fetching Enum types based on their title attribute:
abstract class Enums { static private Landmass getLandmass(String name) { for ( Landmass l : Landmass.values( ) ) { if(l.title.equals(name)){ return l;
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The second method (getAttribute) is created by copy-paste and I also need to repeat this exercise with several other types of Enums. This seems like a waste of code however.
Instead, I thought I'd create a generic method for fetching any type of Enums. As far as I could follow the tutorial @ Oracle I need a generic class for this. Thus the EnumHelper class:
abstract class EnumHelper<T> { private T getEnum(T type, String name) { for ( type t : type.values( ) ) { if(t.title.equals(name)){ return t; } } return null; } }
This, however, doesn't compute:
horoscopeEnums.java:234: error: cannot find symbol for ( type t : type.values( ) ) { ^ symbol: class type location: class EnumHelper<T> where T is a type-variable:
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2 errors
To be honest I haven't been able to make much sense of the documentation on generics, thus its no surprise I'm stuck.
I am trying to get the average of 3 different fraction arrays. I made a fraction class and I made methods such as read() and average() in this new class.
package fractions; import java.util.Scanner; import java.util.Arrays; public class FractionArrays { public static void main(String[] args) { Fraction completeFraction = new Fraction(5,6);
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I was wondering if there was any way to use the arrays I created in the read method in the average method. If I find that out I should be able to do it on my own. Is there a way to make the arrays public to use in different methods?
public String firstName() Returns the customer's first name public String lastName() Returns the customer's last name public double balance() Returns the customer's account balance
Finally I need to create a driver to test my class. And create several accounts and verify that the first name, last name, and balance methods work properly. This is my code below.. I don't know if I did it right.
public class BankAccount { String firstName, lastName; double balance; public BankAccount(String firstName, String lastName, double balance) {
This is titled "Creating static methods that accepts arguments and returns a value". I think that I understood everything about this except for the very bottom part of the code. I wasn't really sure where to put it. From the errors that I am seeing, I know which line is giving the errors but I'm not sure what is wrong with it.
import java.util.Scanner; public class ParadiseInfo2{ public static void main(String[] args){ double price; double discount;
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Errors:G:ParadiseInfo2.java:29: error: illegal start of expression public static double computeDiscountInfo(double pr, double dscnt) ^ G:ParadiseInfo2.java:29: error: illegal start of expression public static double computeDiscountInfo(double pr, double dscnt)
I've a parent class with a argument constructor like below(a sample code)
public class Parent { Parent(String name) { System.out.println(name); } public static void main(String[] args) { } }
Also I've child.class which extends Parent.class as shown below,
public class child extends Parent { child(String name) { super(name); } }
Now, I want create/modify the constructor which is in child, by taking "int i" as an input instead of "String name". How can I do that? Run time I want to execute child constructor not a parent constructor.
Condition is: Without making any changes to the Parent class
So I'd like to know what all the statement, not sure if it's the correct way of calling them but I'd like to know what like all of those purple-ish colored words in eclipse actually mean.Here's what I know so far, so if you can add some stuff to it or just correct me:
public - can be accessed by different classes. private - can't be accessed by different classes. static - adds a '.' which pretty much lets you like use methods on it? Not really sure about this one. final - a final value of a variable meaning it couldn't and willn't change? super - I have no clue, maybe something that has to be executed first? Not sure. void - bassicly you don't have to use return as it doesn't return any value. this - Uh-.. I think it has something to do with the class this keyword has been entered into, not quite sure what it does though.
I assume there are alot more but I am just not sure about these common ones, what the actually do and what's their purpose?
I am creating a slot machine using eclipse. I am trying to get the "winnings" JTextField to be updated in a way so that when the random images have been selected it adds to the number that is already displayed in the JTextField as opposed to what it is doing at the minute which is just displaying how much was won on that particular spin. I am also struggling to set a code for when noting is won, nothing is added. My code is below.
