Thread: need help fast!!

how to print the name and id of a student while pulling it from arraylist.

Use the get method to "pull" an element/object from the arraylist.

Then extract the name and id of the student from the object and print them.

Your code has the statement that prints the name commented out???

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i was just going back through and trying fix stuff, thats why they were commented out. im not sure about the pull method could you give an example. also i am having trouble with the accesor and mutator methods. i have to have name and id private in student class.

import java.util.*;
 
public class NollisP3A{
	public static void main (String[] args){
 
 
	ArrayList studentList = new ArrayList();
 
	String menu= "Enter 1 to: Add a student to the list.\nEnter 2 to: Delete a student from the list.\nEnter 3 to: Display number of students in the list.\nEnter 4 to: Display information (ID and name) for all students.\nEnter 5 to. Find a student with a specific ID.\nEnter 0 to: Quit the program.";
 
 
	System.out.println(menu);	
	Scanner input1 = new Scanner(System.in);
	int choice = input1.nextInt();
	int n = 0;
 
	if (choice == 0){
		System.out.println("Program Ended");
		System.exit(0);
			}//end if
		else{
			while(choice!= 0){
			switch (choice){
				case 1: System.out.println("Enter student ID");
 
						Scanner idInput = new Scanner(System.in);
						int id = idInput.nextInt();
						System.out.println("Enter student name");
						Scanner nameInput = new Scanner(System.in);
						String name = nameInput.next();
						student kid = new student(id,name);
						studentList.add(n++, kid1);
						System.out.print(kid.id +"\n\n");
 
						System.out.println(menu);	
						choice = input1.nextInt();
					break;
 
 
				case 2: System.out.println("Enter ID number to delete the student");
					Scanner delete = new Scanner(System.in);
					int del = delete.nextInt();
					studentList.remove(kid.id == del);
 
					System.out.println(menu);	
					choice = input1.nextInt();
					break;
 
 
				case 3: System.out.println("Number of Students: " + studentList.size());
 
						System.out.println(menu);	
						choice = input1.nextInt();
					break;
 
 
				case 4:
					//display students and id
					int i =0;
					while(i < studentList.size()){
					System.out.println(((student)studentList.get(i).getName()));
					i++;
 
					}
 
 
 
					System.out.println(menu);	
					choice = input1.nextInt();
					break;
 
 
				case 5: System.out.println("Enter the ID number.");
					Scanner findId = new Scanner(System.in);
 
					System.out.println(kid.id);
 
					System.out.println(menu);	
					choice = input1.nextInt();
					break;
 
 
				default: System.out.println("Error: Try again.");
					System.out.println(menu);	
					choice = input1.nextInt();		
 
				}//end switch
			}//end while
		}//end else
	}//end main
}//end of nollis
 
class student{
	 private int id;
	 private String name;
 
 
 
	student(){
		}
 
	student(int newId, String newName){
		getId();
		getName();
		id = newId;
		name= newName;
 
	}
 
	int getId(){
		return this.id;
	}
 
 
	String getName(){
	return this.name;
	}
}

The API is your best friend in JAVA.

To find the API for any Java Standard Object, just Google: java+[object]+6 and it is usually the first link.

For example, we want to get the ArrayList API. So we Google: java+ArrayList+6. The first link is: ArrayList (Java Platform SE 6)

Perfect. Now we want to find a method that does what we want. Based on method descriptions, this is what we want:

get
public E get(int index)Returns the element at the specified position in this list.

Specified by:
get in interface List<E>
Specified by:
get in class AbstractList<E>
Parameters:
index - index of the element to return
Returns:
the element at the specified position in this list
Throws:
IndexOutOfBoundsException - if the index is out of range (index < 0 || index >= size())

Remember, if you are looking for something specific, always check the API before asking around for help and waiting for people to respond. 99% of the time, checking the API is MUCH faster.