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    Post Newbie problem

    Here's the problem:
    Problem A: Lane Basketball team. Objectives: Creating classes, passing parameters to objects from a driver program.
    Write a class for the Lane Basketball team named Athlete which has the following attributes: name, position, height in feet and inches. Write appropriate mutator (set) methods which change each of the attribute values, and accessor (get) methods which return the attribute values. Create a driver program which creates four athlete objects, stores the following values in each, and then displays the values for each athlete.
    Height
    Name Position Feet Inches
    A. Samuels Guard 6 3
    C. Truman Forward 5 11
    S. Hendricks Point Guard 6 1
    N. Anderson Center 6 5

    ... I've written the Athlete class but I'm not entirely sure how it's supposed compile together.

    /**
    * Athlete Class
    */

    public class Athlete
    {
    // Fields
    private String PlayerName; //player name
    private String PlayerPosition; //player position
    private double PlayerHeight; //height of player


    public Athlete(String name, String pos, double hgt)
    {
    PlayerName = name;
    PlayerPosition = pos;
    PlayerHeight = hgt;
    }

    public void setPlayerName(String name)
    {
    PlayerName = name;
    }

    public void setPlayerPosition(String pos)
    {
    PlayerPosition = pos;
    }

    public void setPlayerHeight(double hgt)
    {
    PlayerHeight = hgt;
    }

    public String getPlayerName()
    {
    return PlayerName;
    }

    public String getPlayerPosition()
    {
    return PlayerPosition;
    }

    public double getPlayerHeight()
    {
    return PlayerHeight;
    }
    }

    Then I have to create a driver program. This is where it gets sticky. Am I supposed to input the attributes into the driver program? How do I go about doing this? So far I'm up to here.

    public class AthleteTest
    {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    String testName;
    String testPosition;
    double testHeight;

    Athlete display1 = new Athlete(A. Samuels, Guard, 6.3);
    Athlete display2 = new Athlete(C. Truman, Forward, 5.11);
    Athlete display3 = new Athlete(S. Hendricks, Point Guard, 6.1);
    Athlete display4 = new Athlete(N. Anderson, Center, 6.5);

    I have a feeling I'm like TOTALLY off.

    Thanks in advance for your help.


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    Default Re: Newbie problem

    Print each of the attribute for each athlete to System.out. I'd use a different method, like
    public void printAthlete(Athlete athlete)
    {
      String name = athlete.getPlayerName();
      String position = athlete.getPlayerPosition();
      double height = athlete.getPlayerHeight();
      //Use System.out to print these.. not sure how you want it to look.
    }

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    Default Re: Newbie problem

    So the athlete class looks okay for this assignment? Thanks

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