How to search for an element in an array? and How to add variables with declared methods into an array list?

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I have 2 major troubles (that I'm aware of) with this program. Firstly, I don't know how to get FinalGrade and LetterGrade into the array. Secondly, I don't know how to use last name and first name to search for a student in the array. Let me know if you find other problems with my program. Thanks

This is the 1st class

package student;

public class Person {

    protected String FirstName, LastName;

    //Constructor
    public Person(String FirstName, String LastName) {
        this.FirstName = FirstName;
        this.LastName = LastName;
    }

    //Getters
 public String getFirstName() {
        return FirstName;
    }

    public String getLastName() {
        return LastName;
    }
    //Setters
    public void setFirstName(String FirstName) {
        this.FirstName = FirstName;
    }

     public void setLastName(String LastName) {
        this.LastName = LastName;
    }


}

This is the 2nd class:

package student;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Scanner;



public class Student extends Person{
    private int HomeworkAve, QuizAve, ProjectAve, TestAve; 
    private double FinalGrade;
    private String LetterGrade;

//Constructor for the averages
    public Student(int HomeworkAve, int QuizAve, int ProjectAve, int TestAve, String FirstName, String LastName) 
    {
        super(FirstName, LastName);
        this.HomeworkAve = HomeworkAve;
        this.QuizAve = QuizAve;
        this.ProjectAve = ProjectAve;
        this.TestAve = TestAve;

    }

    //Method to calculate final grade and letter grade
    //Final grade calculation
    public double CalcGrade (int HomeworkAve, int QuizAve, int ProjectAve, int TestAve)
    {
FinalGrade = (double)(0.15*HomeworkAve + 0.05*QuizAve + 0.4 * ProjectAve + 0.4*TestAve);
return FinalGrade;
    }

    //Letter grade calculation
    public String CalcGrade ( double FinalGrade)
    {
        if ( FinalGrade >= 90.00)
        LetterGrade="A";
    else if(FinalGrade >= 80.00)
        LetterGrade="B";
    else if(FinalGrade>=70.00)
        LetterGrade="C";
    else if(FinalGrade>=60.00)
        LetterGrade="D";
    else LetterGrade="F";

        return LetterGrade;
    }

    public String getFullName (String FirstName,String LastName)
    {
        String str1 = FirstName;
        String str2 = LastName;
        String FullName = str1+","+str2;
        return FullName;
    }

    public Student(int HomeworkAve, int QuizAve, int ProjectAve, int TestAve, double FinalGrade, String LetterGrade, String FirstName, String LastName) {
        super(FirstName, LastName);
        this.HomeworkAve = HomeworkAve;
        this.QuizAve = QuizAve;
        this.ProjectAve = ProjectAve;
        this.TestAve = TestAve;
        this.FinalGrade = FinalGrade;
        this.LetterGrade = LetterGrade;

    }


    //Setters for this student class
    public void setHomeworkAve(int HomeworkAve) {
        this.HomeworkAve = HomeworkAve;
    }

    public void setQuizAve(int QuizAve) {
        this.QuizAve = QuizAve;
    }

    public void setProjectAve(int ProjectAve) {
        this.ProjectAve = ProjectAve;
    }

    public void setTestAve(int TestAve) {
        this.TestAve = TestAve;
    }

    public void setFinalGrade(int FinalGrade) {
        this.FinalGrade = FinalGrade;
    }

    public void setLetterGrade(String LetterGrade) {
        this.LetterGrade = LetterGrade;
    }


    //Getters for this student class
    public int getHomeworkAve() {
        return HomeworkAve;
    }

    public int getQuizAve() {
        return QuizAve;
    }

    public int getProjectAve() {
        return ProjectAve;
    }

    public int getTestAve() {
        return TestAve;
    }

    public double getFinalGrade() {
        return FinalGrade;
    }

    public String getLetterGrade() {
        return LetterGrade;
    }

   public void DisplayGrade (){
       System.out.println(FirstName+" "+LastName+"/nFinal Grade: "+FinalGrade+"/nLetter Grade: "+ LetterGrade);
   }




   public static void main(String[] args){
    Scanner oScan = new Scanner(System.in);
    Scanner iScan = new Scanner(System.in);

    boolean bContinue = true;
    int iChoice;

   ArrayList<Student> students = new ArrayList<>();


   while (bContinue == true)
        {
   //The menu
       System.out.println("1.       New Class List");
       System.out.println("2.       Search for a Student");
       System.out.println("3.       Exit");
       System.out.println("Choose an item");

       iChoice = iScan.nextInt();


   //The 1st case: when the user wants to enter the new list   
   if (iChoice == 1){

   System.out.println("Enter the number of students");

   int numberOfStudents = iScan.nextInt();

    for(int iCount = 0;iCount < numberOfStudents;){

    System.out.println("Enter the name for Student " + ++iCount);
    System.out.println("Enter First Name");
    String FirstName = oScan.nextLine();
    System.out.println();

    System.out.println("Enter Last Name");
    String LastName = oScan.nextLine();
     System.out.println();

    System.out.println("Enter Homework Average");
    int HomeworkAve = iScan.nextInt();
    System.out.println();

    System.out.println("Enter Quiz Average");
    int QuizAve = iScan.nextInt();
    System.out.println();

    System.out.println("Enter Project Average");
    int ProjectAve = iScan.nextInt();
    System.out.println();

    System.out.println("Enter Test Average");
    int TestAve = iScan.nextInt();
    System.out.println();

How to get FinalGrade and LetterGrade??

 Student hobbit = new Student(HomeworkAve,QuizAve, ProjectAve,TestAve,FirstName, LastName);
    students.add(hobbit);
  }
}




 //The 2nd case: when the user wants to search for a student        
    else if (iChoice == 2)
    {
     System.out.println("Enter First Name");
        String FirstName = oScan.nextLine();
        System.out.println();

        System.out.println("Enter Last Name");
        String LastName = oScan.nextLine();
        System.out.println();

Here is my revised code to find the student but I don't know how to print the array after I found it

int i = 0;
for (Student student : students) {

    if (FirstName != null & LastName != null);{
    if (student.getFirstName().equals(FirstName) && student.getLastName().equals(LastName)) {

   System.out.println(students.get(i)); //this doesn't work

        break;
    }
    i++;

}
}   

 //The 3r case: when the user wants to exit       
 else if (iChoice == 3)
            {
                bContinue = false;
            }
}
}

}

tinker · Accepted Answer · 2015-03-01 00:11:15Z

2

You have an ArrayList of type Student and you are doing indexOf on a variable of type String. You will have to traverse the entire ArrayList and then do a comparison to find out if the student name mathces. Sample code:

int i = 0;
for (Student student : students) {
    // Add null checks if first/last name can be null
    if (student.getFirstName().equals(firstName) && student.getLastName().equals(lastName)) {
        System.out.println("Found student at " + i);
        break;
    }
    i++;
}

FinalGrade and LetterGrade are variables in each object, I think you are mistaken about the concept of an Array/ArrayList. The ArrayList only holds each Student object, not the variable in each object. You can go through each student and get their finalGrade and letterGrade with the get* functions. Before doing this, you should make a call to CalcGrade methods so the grades are calculated.

edited Mar 1, 2015 at 0:11

answered Mar 1, 2015 at 0:03

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2 Comments

Gregory Basior Over a year ago

Probably better off using a map if you need to find the student by a common key, such as lastName,firstName. If you put the students into a Map<String,Student> where there key is lastName + "," + firstName, then you can find your student a lot easier.

tinker Over a year ago

True, but this is a more general solution if you need to find elements by comparing variables of an object.

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