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CSE1116 Lab04

1. The lab manual describes an introductory lab on classes and objects in Java. It involves defining an Icecream class with attributes like type, company, and price. 2. Students will create Icecream objects, use access modifiers, add setter/getter methods, pass objects to methods, create arrays of objects, and introduce class diagrams. 3. Three problems are given: create an Icecream array and search by company; define a Book class and compare/check books; implement a Fraction class with addition and string representation methods.

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CSE1116 Lab04

1. The lab manual describes an introductory lab on classes and objects in Java. It involves defining an Icecream class with attributes like type, company, and price. 2. Students will create Icecream objects, use access modifiers, add setter/getter methods, pass objects to methods, create arrays of objects, and introduce class diagrams. 3. Three problems are given: create an Icecream array and search by company; define a Book class and compare/check books; implement a Fraction class with addition and string representation methods.

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Lab Manual: 04

Lab Topic: Introducing Classes and Objects


Course Code: CSE110 (Object Oriented Programming)
Course Instructor: Mir Moynuddin Ahmed Shibly, Lecturer, CSE, UIU.

Lab Objective
1. Familiarize students with the implementation of classes
2. Instantiation of objects accordingly.
Lab Activities

A. Writing Class Definition


● Define a class ‘Icecream’ that has the following instance variables:
a. icecreamType (String)
b. icecreamCompany (String)
c. icecreamPrice (double)
● At the beginning, the access specifier is default (no public or private while declaring them).
● Define appropriate constructors for ‘Icecream’ class that set the attributes values. One constructor should take
attributes value as parameter.
● Define the following instance methods:
a. toString(): returns a string containing an icecream information.
.
B. Demonstrating Class Functionalities
● Define the Main (Driver) class that has the main() method.
● Create two icecream objects using both constructors.
● Print their values.
C. Introducing private access specifier and Setters (Mutators) and Getters (Accessors)
● While declaring instance variables, using private access modifier indicates that the instance variable cannot
be accessed from outside the class definition. It is helping to achieve data hiding that states that the data of an
object must not be accidentally modified or updated.
● Therefore, to access the private instance variables from outside the class, we need to include a few more
instance methods known as setters and getters.
● Setters are used to set the value.
void setIcecreamType(String icecreamType){
icecreamType = icecreamType;
}
● Getters are used to return the value.
String getIcecreamType(){
Return icecreamType;
}

● Modify your Icecream class definition accordingly by including setters and getters.
● Remove constructors for ‘Icecream’ class in previous example and define new constructor that set price of
the Icecream class to zero.
D. Passing Objects to Methods
● In Java we can pass objects to methods
● When we pass a primitive type to a method, it is passed by value.
● But when we pass an object to a method, the situation changes dramatically, because objects are passed by
what is effectively call-by-reference.
● Add equals (Icecream I) method to your Icecream class and return true if price of caller object and
callee object are same; false, otherwise.
● Add compareTo(Icecream I): returns 1 if price of caller object is higher, 0 if both prices are the same,
-1 otherwise
E. Array of Objects
● An array of objects is actually an array of reference variables.
● For the Icecream class we can create array of objects :
Icecream[] IcecreamArray = new Icecream [10];
F. Introducing Class Diagram
● Specifications of a class can be also expressed using a class diagram.
● Class diagram is a standard way to represent a class.
● The above-mentioned Icecream class can be represented using the following diagram.

Lab Problems

01: Based on the ‘Icecream’ class as defined before, now create an array of Icecream type objects and get the input from
the user to initialize those objects. The size of array must be at least 5.

Now, write a static method searchByCompany in the Main class of the previous implementation, which takes a String
parameter representing company name and then prints all icecream’s information manufactured by that company.

02: Write a program in Java that follows the specifications as given below.
● Define a class Book as shown in the following figure.

● Create your Main class and the main() method. Define an array of Book type objects of size 5.
● Instantiate these Book objects by taking the inputs from the user.
● Print all Book objects’ data using a static method displayAll().
● Invoke compareTo() method to compare any two Book objects based on their pages. If caller object’s number of
pages is greater than callee object’s number of pages, compareTo() returns 1; if both pages are same, the method
returns 0 and -1 otherwise. Make sure to print the returned value.
● Define a static method isHeavier() within the Main class that takes a Book object as input parameter and returns
true if the Book’s number of pages is greater than 500; false, otherwise. Add appropriate code into your main()
method to demonstrate its functionalities.

03: Implement the following class ‘Fraction’ and test its methods.

void add(Fraction fraction)


Adds two Fraction objects and stores the result into a calling object. This is how addition is performed for
fractions:
1 / 4 + 3 / 5 = 1 * 5 + 3 * 4 / 4 * 5 = 17 / 20

String toString()
Returns the value of the fraction in 1 / 2 format where 1 is numerator and 2 is denominator.

Now write a test program, take two Fraction objects. Print both of them. Test add, sub, multiplication and division
methods. Print calling object after each method call.

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