CS 1401, Quiz 10

Date: Monday, November 13, 2006
Name (please type legibly, ideally in block letters): ______________________________________________________________________

1. Mark what new material is covered and what is not covered in Chapter 12:

exceptions covered
try-catch blocks covered
throw covered
linked lists not covered
recursion not covered

2. Define a class Student in which each object has a name and a GPA. Do not forget to include a constructor, accessor methods, and mutator methods.

Solution:

public class Student{
  private String name;
  private double gpa;
  public Student(String aname, double agpa){name = aname; gpa = agpa;}
  public String getName(){return name;}
  public double getGpa(){return gpa;}
  public void setName(String newName){name = newName;}
  public void setGpa(double newGpa){gra = newGpa;}
}

3. Considering Student as a superclass, define a subclass CsStudent in which each object has an additional field: GPA in CS classes.


Solution:

public class CsStudent extends Student{
  private double gpaInCs;
  public CsStudent(String aname, double agpa, double agpaInCs)
    {super(aname, agpa); gpaInCs = agpaInCs;}
  public double getGpaInCs(){return gpaInCs;}
  public void setGpaInCs(double newGpaInCs){graInCs = newGpaInCs;}
}

4. In the main method, define a new object of type CsStudent with your name and perfect GPAs, and return its perfect GPA. Trace your code step-by-step.

Solution:

CsStudent i = new CsStudent("Luis Garcia", 4.0, 4.0);
double myGpa = i.getGpa();

Tracing:

on the first line, we call a constructor method:

 -----------------
|  -------------  |
| | Luis Garcia | |
|  ------------   |
|     aname       |
|  ------------   |
| |   4.0      |  |
|  ------------   |
|     agpa        |
|  ------------   |
| |   4.0      |  |
|  ------------   |
|    agpaInCs     |
|-----------------|
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
 -----------------
    CsStudent

this method, in its turn, calls a constructor method of the superclass:

 -----------------
|  -------------  |
| | Luis Garcia | |
|  ------------   |
|     aname       |
|  ------------   |
| |   4.0      |  |
|  ------------   |
|     agpa        |
|-----------------|
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
 -----------------
     Student

after the first line, we get a new object

 -----------------
|  -------------  |
| | Luis Garcia | |
|  ------------   |
|     name        |
|  ------------   |
| |   4.0      |  |
|  ------------   |
|     gpa         |
|  ------------   |
| |   4.0      |  |
|  ------------   |
|    gpaInCs      |
|-----------------|
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
 -----------------
      i

after the second line, we get

 ----------
|   4.0    |
 ----------
   mygpa