Thread: Please Help Please

Design a class that holds the following personal data: name, address, age, and phone number. Write appropriate accessor and mutator methods. Demonstrate the class by writing a program that creates three instances of it. One instance should hold your information, and the other two should hold your friends' or family members' information.
I started it but I can't get the code right. Please if anyone can give some advice let me know.

It would help if you provided more details.

What code have you written? If it does not compile and you can't understand the compiler's messages, post them and someone is sure to explain what they mean. If your code compiles but does something weird at runtime describe both the observed behaviour and what you expected or intended.

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One piece of advice would be to work in very small steps. Your class is supposed to represent a number of pieces of data, but you could start with just name. Compile often and make sure you deal with any compiler messages as they arise.

Thank you for your reply. What I gave is what my teacher gave to us and told us to create it for homework. This is what I have done so far:


public class Personal

{
private String name;
private String address;
private int age;
private int phoneNumber;

public void setName(String n)
{
name = n;
}

public void setAddress(String a)
{
address = a;
}

public void setAge(int b)
{
age = b;
}

public void setPhoneNumber(int c)
{
phoneNumber = c;
}

public String getName()
{
return name;
}

public String getAddress();
{
return Address;
}

public int getAge();
{
return age;
}

public int getPhoneNumber();
{
return phoneNumber;
}

}


This is page one and my teacher wants us to link two pages together, for example what I just put and a second page printing it out and linking it. He confuses us all lol.

This is page one and my teacher wants us to link two pages together

I think your teacher is getting at the fact that the questions asks for *two* Java classes. And you have written the first one.

Does it compile? As I mentioned the first order of business is to address any problems to which the compiler has alerted you.

I don't know how to start the second page with this really with that little information. I just got this page to compile. We just started this and kind of get tossed under the bus lol. Here is the second page I just created and I was completely guessing on it.
public class PersonalDriver
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Personal p1 = new Personal();
e1.setName("John Boyer");
e1.setAddress("154 weird st. St. Louis, MO 63111");
e1.setAge(28);
e1.setPhoneNumber(314-471-4161);

System.out.println("Personal Name: " + e1.getName());
System.out.println("Personal Address: " + e1.getAddress());
System.out.println("Personal Age: " + e1.getAge());
System.out.println("Personal Phone Number: " + e1.getPhoneNumber());


Personal p2 = new Personal();

e2.setName("Mark Jones");
e2.setAddress("1232 Main st. st. louis, MO 63223");
e2.setAge(29);
e2.setPhoneNumber(314 555 5555);

System.out.println("Personal Name: " + e2.getName());
System.out.println("Personal Address: " + e2.getAddress());
System.out.println("Personal Age: " + e2.getAge());
System.out.println("Perosnal PhoneNumber: " + e2.getPhoneNumber());

Personal p3 = new Personal();

e3.setName("Susan Jones");
e3.setAddress("432 Apple dr. st. louis mo 63010");
e3.setAge(26);
e3.setPhoneNumber(314 555 4754);

System.out.println("Personal Name: " + e3.getName());
System.out.println("Personal Address: " + e3.getAddress());
System.out.println("Personal Age: " + e3.getAge());
System.out.println("Personal Phone Number: " + e3.getNumber());

}
}

He said the directing in the paragraph I posted is enough for a basic code with classes and objects. I cant get this page to compile I get a lot of errors. I dont understand the errors bc a book says its right.

Sorry I realized I messed up on something, but I still can't get this page to compile and I am not sure its right. I wish he would have given us more information.

public class PersonalDriver
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
Personal p1 = new Personal();
p1.setName("John Boyer");
p1.setAddress("154 weird st. St. Louis, MO 63111");
p1.setAge(28);
p1.setPhoneNumber(314-471-4161);

System.out.println("Personal Name: " + p1.getName());
System.out.println("Personal Address: " + p1.getAddress());
System.out.println("Personal Age: " + p1.getAge());
System.out.println("Personal Phone Number: " + p1.getPhoneNumber());


Personal p2 = new Personal();

p2.setName("Mark Jones");
p2.setAddress("1232 Main st. st. louis, MO 63223");
p2.setAge(29);
p2.setPhoneNumber(314 555 5555);

System.out.println("Personal Name: " + p2.getName());
System.out.println("Personal Address: " + p2.getAddress());
System.out.println("Personal Age: " + p2.getAge());
System.out.println("Perosnal PhoneNumber: " + p2.getPhoneNumber());

Personal p3 = new Personal();

p3.setName("Susan Jones");
p3.setAddress("432 Apple dr. st. louis mo 63010");
p3.setAge(26);
p3.setPhoneNumber(314 555 4754);

System.out.println("Personal Name: " + p3.getName());
System.out.println("Personal Address: " + p3.getAddress());
System.out.println("Personal Age: " + p3.getAge());
System.out.println("Personal Phone Number: " + p3.getNumber());

}
}

I would suggest using an IDE.
Then if he needs to see it just make it into a JAR cause I believe it will show the console for you.

ok I will try it thank you. I am just starting out and don't know much on how to use it. I will let you know how it goes and thank you for the advice.

As posted the first class will *not* compile. I would advise making it good before moving on to the other one. If you've corrected the fairly minor syntax errors (the overall structure of your original post is Ok) then repost the corrected code. If the are unresolved compile problems with that code, post the compiler's messages.