{"id":548,"date":"2013-08-22T23:06:05","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T06:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/?p=548"},"modified":"2013-08-22T23:06:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T06:06:43","slug":"lab-week-5-arrays-and-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/comp1400\/blog\/2013\/08\/lab-week-5-arrays-and-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Week 5 – Arrays and Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t finish last week’s exercises, continue on with those. In particular, make sure you understand how to use loops and arrays (i.e. the last two exercises).<\/p>\n

Classes<\/h2>\n

Investigating the TicketMachine:<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Download the\u00a0TicketMachine project<\/a> we have been building in lectures. Unzip it on your desktop and open the project with BlueJ.<\/li>\n
  2. Create an instance of the TicketMachine class.<\/li>\n
  3. Experiment with the addMoney() method. What happens if you:\n
      \n
    • Add 0 cents?<\/li>\n
    • Add an negative amount?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
    • Is this behaviour correct?<\/li>\n
    • Experiment with the purchaseTicket() method. Does it work correctly? Try a number of different tests to make sure.<\/li>\n
    • Open up the source and place a breakpoint at the beginning of the purchaseTicket() method by clicking in the grey bar on the left. A little stop sign should appear.<\/li>\n
    • Call the method again and use the Debugger to step through the code.<\/li>\n
    • Try this with different balances to see how the execution varies.<\/li>\n
    • There is a bug in this method. Can you find it?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Extending the TicketMachine<\/strong><\/p>\n

      Let us extend the ticket machine to keep track of the total amount of cash collected and to allow us to change ticket prices.<\/p>\n

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      1. Add a new field to the class to store the total cash collected.<\/li>\n
      2. When does this value change? What methods will you need to modify to track these changes?<\/li>\n
      3. Add a new accessor method getTotal() to return the value.<\/li>\n
      4. Test your code with a variety of method calls to make sure it does the right thing.<\/li>\n
      5. Add a new mutator method setPrice() to allow you to change the ticket price.<\/li>\n
      6. What happens if you set the ticket price to zero? a negative number?<\/li>\n
      7. Add a conditional statement to set-price to stop the price from being set to a negative value.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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