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Posted by Shane McC
Shane McC
3,005 Points

Does my Logic make sense? Am I thinking like a programmer in my logic?

Hi Everyone

My goal here is to make sure my approach to Java makes sense. Below I've presented myself with two different scenarios. I've broken the problems down my different classes and methods. Does my logic make sense? Am I attacking my problems below correctly?

Not sue if this makes a difference but I would write the below syntax in Java.

Problem1 Walk 5 miles down the street, wait 5 minutes and walk back up the street

What are nouns? (Person, place thing) Street->this would be the class

What are the properties of the street? Miles

What are verbs/actions? (Action, state of being) Walk, wait-> these could be methods

Problem2 Go to car auction. Buy two vehicles. A dodge truck and a Toyota Camry. Pay for these vehicles at the auction and drive back to the dealership

What are nouns? (Person, place thing)

Car auction->this would be the class, vehicles, truck, Camry, dealership

What are the properties of the car auction? How many vehicles the auction has? What type of vehicles the auction has? How many lanes the auction has?

What are verbs/actions? (Action, state of being) Go to car auction, buy, pay, drive-> these could be methods

1 Answer

Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,443 Points
Ricardo Hill-Henry
Ricardo Hill-Henry
38,443 Points

Both could use an actual Person class.

The first problem could use a Walk class. Inside the Walk constructor that accepts two parameters for a Person, and street name. Then you could use a method inside Walk for setDistance(), getDistance(), etc..\

public class Person{
public String firstName, lastName;

public Person( String fName, String lName){
 .....
}

}

Pubic class Walk{
public int distanceWalked;

Public Walk( Person p, int Distance){
...}

With Car you could make a Car class that contains different type of cars, then include a method inside of your Person ( buyCar( Car carParam) that accepts a Car parameter.

Shane McC
Shane McC
3,005 Points

Thanks for the help