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Lab 05.1: Creating Classes: Objective

This document provides instructions for a lab exercise to practice creating classes in Java. Students will: 1. Create a Box class with private height, width, and length attributes and public getter and setter methods for each. 2. Add two Box constructors - one that sets all three attributes from parameters, and one that sets all attributes equal for a cube. 3. Add getVolume and getSurfaceArea methods to calculate and return the volume and surface area. 4. Add a printBox method to print box details or an error if any attribute is invalid.

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Lab 05.1: Creating Classes: Objective

This document provides instructions for a lab exercise to practice creating classes in Java. Students will: 1. Create a Box class with private height, width, and length attributes and public getter and setter methods for each. 2. Add two Box constructors - one that sets all three attributes from parameters, and one that sets all attributes equal for a cube. 3. Add getVolume and getSurfaceArea methods to calculate and return the volume and surface area. 4. Add a printBox method to print box details or an error if any attribute is invalid.

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Lab 05.

1: Creating Classes
Objective

This lab will provide practice in creating classes, methods and attributes. You will
also implement several small methods in your new class during this exercise.

Overview

In this lab you will:


• Create new classes, attributes and methods
• Implement your methods

Step by Step Instructions

Exercise 1: Creating Classes and Attributes

1. Create a new class named Box in the com.lq.exercises package.

2. A Box has three pieces of information


a. height
b. width
c. length

3. Create private attributes in your Box class for each of these pieces of
information. Use double as the data type for each attribute.

4. Create public methods to set each attribute and retrieve (get) each attribute.
Right click on the editor window and select the Source menu. From that menu
select “Generate Getters and Setters”. Check the “Select all” and “Generate
Comments” boxes. From the location dropdown choose last member and
then click finish.
Exercise 2: Create Constructors

5. Create two constructors for the Box class.

a. The first should accept 3 parameters and assign them to the length,
width and height attributes respectively. Note: there is a wizard on
the “Source” menu that will create this without typing.

b. The second should accept 1 parameter and assign it to all 3 attributes


(creating a cube). This constructor should make a call to the other
constructor to avoid duplication of code.

Exercise 3: Create Business Methods

6. Create a method named getVolume that accepts no parameters and returns


a double containing the volume of the Box. [Hint: Volume is height * width *
length.]
7. Create a method named getSurfaceArea that accepts no parameters and
returns a double containing the surface area of the Box. [Hint: Surface area
is the sum of the areas of the 6 sides of the Box.]

Exercise 4: Create a printBox Method

8. Create a method named printBox which does the following:


a. If any one of the 3 attributes is less than or equal to 0, it will print a
message stating that the box contains invalid properties.

b. If all 3 sides are set correctly (i.e. greater than 0), it will print a
message in the following form:

Note: we will not test any of our code at this point. Once we cover creating
objects and calling class methods, we will ensure that all the code is operating
correctly.

Challenge Exercises:

Refactor your code to eliminate duplicate logic.

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