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    Practice Exercise #23: Manage Animals: Objective

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    This document provides instructions for an exercise to manage animals in two establishments: a zoo and bird park. It introduces generics and inheritance. The student is asked to: 1. Create a Bird class to represent the 99 bird species 2. Define the bird park as a generic list that can hold Bird objects 3. Complete the addAnimal method to add birds to the bird park Testing and incremental development is recommended. The goal is to leverage generics and inheritance to manage different types of animals in their respective locations while maintaining substitutability.

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    This document provides instructions for an exercise to manage animals in two establishments: a zoo and bird park. It introduces generics and inheritance. The student is asked to: 1. Create a Bird class to represent the 99 bird species 2. Define the bird park as a generic list that can hold Bird objects 3. Complete the addAnimal method to add birds to the bird park Testing and incremental development is recommended. The goal is to leverage generics and inheritance to manage different types of animals in their respective locations while maintaining substitutability.

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    This document provides instructions for an exercise to manage animals in two establishments: a zoo and bird park. It introduces generics and inheritance. The student is asked to: 1. Create a Bird class to represent the 99 bird species 2. Define the bird park as a generic list that can hold Bird objects 3. Complete the addAnimal method to add birds to the bird park Testing and incremental development is recommended. The goal is to leverage generics and inheritance to manage different types of animals in their respective locations while maintaining substitutability.

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    Practice Exercise #23: Manage Animals: Objective

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    This document provides instructions for an exercise to manage animals in two establishments: a zoo and bird park. It introduces generics and inheritance. The student is asked to: 1. Create a Bird class to represent the 99 bird species 2. Define the bird park as a generic list that can hold Bird objects 3. Complete the addAnimal method to add birds to the bird park Testing and incremental development is recommended. The goal is to leverage generics and inheritance to manage different types of animals in their respective locations while maintaining substitutability.

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    Practice Exercise #23: Manage Animals

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    Objective:
     Inheritance with Generics
     Substitutability
    Task Statement
    A business has two establishments: Monyet Zoo and Burung Bird Park. A program has already
    been written to list the names of animals in the Zoo, but you are to extend this to the Bird Park,
    with some additional requirements.
    The existing programs are found in the skeleton file. Zoo.java describes a list of animals, along
    with some types of animals:
    class Animal { ... }
    class Monkey extends Animal { ... }
    class Chimp extends Animal { ... }

    class Zoo <E> {

    private List<E> animals;

    public Zoo() {
    // Substitutability in action (1) -
    // Supertype reference to subtype object
    animals = new ArrayList<E>();
    }
    public void addAnimal(E newAnimal) {
    animals.add(newAnimal);
    }
    @Override
    public String toString() {
    // ArrayList.toString() is invoked at runtime
    return animals.toString();
    }
    }

    Notice how a reference-typed variable may have a different datatype as the object it refers to.
    A List<E> reference can point to an ArrayList<E> object. If both types implement a
    method with the same signature, can you recall which method is executed when the program is
    run?

    CS1020 (AY2015/6 Sem2) Page 1 of 3 Practice Exercise


    ManageAnimals.java contains the driver class, which reads in (specie, name) pairs:

    public class ManageAnimals {

    private Zoo<Animal> zoo; // zoo only contains Monkeys or Chimps


    /* private ____ birdPark; */

    public ManageAnimals() {
    zoo = new Zoo<Animal>();
    /* birdPark = new ____(); */
    }

    public void listAnimals () {


    System.out.println("Zoo: " + zoo);
    /* System.out.println("Bird Park: " + birdPark); */
    }

    public void addAnimal(String specie, String name) {// INCOMPLETE


    switch (specie) {
    // Substitutability in action (2) -
    // Animal expected, Monkey (or Chimp) provided
    case "Monkey":
    zoo.addAnimal(new Monkey(name));
    return;
    case "Chimp":
    zoo.addAnimal(new Chimp(name));
    return;
    }
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {


    ManageAnimals manager = new ManageAnimals();
    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
    while (sc.hasNext())
    manager.addAnimal(sc.next(), sc.next());
    sc.close();
    manager.listAnimals();
    }
    }

    There are 99 species of Bird, so it is not feasible to create 100 additional classes to describe
    them. Therefore:
    • Create a Bird class in Zoo.java with attributes specie and name
    • Fill in the missing data types in the driver class in ManageAnimals.java
    • Complete the addAnimal() method to add all other animals to the Bird Park
    Remember to code incrementally. Compile and test your program at each step.
    Submit BOTH Zoo.java and ManageAnimals.java.

    CS1020 (AY2015/6 Sem2) Page 2 of 3 Practice Exercise


    Sample Input #1
    Monkey monyet
    Kingfisher k
    Chick tweety
    Chimp panz
    Monkey irbaboon

    Sample Output #1
    Zoo: [Monkey:monyet, Chimp:panz, Monkey:irbaboon]
    Bird Park: [Kingfisher:k, Chick:tweety]

    Sample Input #2
    Duck daisy
    Roadrunner ppp
    Duck daffy
    Bird burung

    Sample Output #2
    Zoo: []
    Bird Park: [Duck:daisy, Roadrunner:ppp, Duck:daffy, Bird:burung]

    Think…
    Do you see how generics are useful here?
    Do you see how generics are limited here?
    Can the Zoo class handle anything that applies to all animals?

    CS1020 (AY2015/6 Sem2) Page 3 of 3 Practice Exercise

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