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Thread: Abstract class variable help

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    Default Abstract class variable help

    The variable gross is still 0 after I gave it another number. Manager is a subclass of Employee and computePay is abstract. The gross in the toString method is 0. I tried to do gross = (pay/24); in the toString method of manager and it worked, but I need to put that in computePay and have it work there.

     import java.util.Scanner;
    import java.io.*;  
    import java.util.ArrayList; 
    public abstract class Employee
    {
       protected String name;
       protected double grossPay;
       protected double netPay;
       protected String job;
     
       public Employee(String person, String title)
       {
           name = person;
           job = title;
       }
       abstract public void computePay();
       public void computeTax()
       {
       }
       public String toString()
       {
           String s = "s";
           return s;
       }
     
    }

    public class Manager extends Employee implements Bonus
    {
     
        private String title;
        private double pay;
        private double gross;
        public Manager(String name, String title, String dprtmt, double salary)
        {
             super(name, title);
             gross = 0;
             pay = salary;
     
        }
     
        public double calcBonus()
        {
            return gross*0.01;
        }
        public void computePay()
        {
            gross = (pay/24);
        }
        public String toString()
        {
     
           String s = name + " title: " + job + " Pay: "+ Double.toString(pay) + " Gross: " +Double.toString(gross);
           return s;
        }
     
     
    }


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    Default Re: Abstract class variable help

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