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January 30th, 2006 at 12:42 am
Your joking, are you? Your sarcasm at the tail end of the article gives you away.
Nice post.
February 2nd, 2006 at 3:10 am
Thanks.
February 8th, 2006 at 3:43 am
[...] Licensing fees are a major deterrent in product development in developing countries. As a result piracy is common. However you cannot sell software based upon pirated environment and without appropriate distribution license. The risks are too high. You have to therefore choose free platform like Java. Java comes with plethora of choices for IDE, frameworks (too many of them IMHO) and best of all it runs on all platform, including but not limited to Windows. [...]
May 20th, 2006 at 1:05 pm
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May 20th, 2006 at 7:57 pm
Wonderful article. BenjiSmith pretty much hit the nail on the head.
July 12th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
How would you program for Java??
Jeff asks you to create a small Java program that loops through an array of toys ordered as a start to the inventory automation project. For now, he says you can use a sample list of possible items. The items you choose for the inventory list are ball, bat, bear, car, doll, game, glove, playstation, and train. In your sample program, keep a tally of the different items. If the item has already been mentioned, just increment that count as opposed to creating a new count for that item. You remember Jeff mentioning that orders for more than 4 items can sometimes cause stock outages. To alert the shipping department of situations where outages might occur, you decide to put an asterisk (*) before any item for which the customer has requested a quantity of 5 or more. At the end, print to the screen a summary of the items and their total count.
Here is a possible structure of your program. This program has a single class named “ToysInventory”. The class has some private attributes and three public methods: countToys, printItems, and main.
Feel free to design your program from scratch.
public class ToysInventory {
// declare counters to keep track of the number of each type of toys
private …
// Toys in our inventory
// declare an array to hold our inventory of toys
private String [] toysInventory = …
// count the number of each type of toys in our inventory.
// This method uses the “length” method on the array to get the number
// of toys in the inventory.
public void countToys () {
…
}
// Print the name of each toy, followed by its count.
// identify toys whose count exceeds five with a “*”.
public void printItems() {
…
}
// This is the main method of the class. It calls the methods of the class to
// perform its job.
public static void main (String [] args) {
// instantiate a class of “toysInventory”, then call its methods:
// countToys and printItems.
ToysInventory collection = new ToysInventory ();
…
}
(Hint: Use myArray.length to determine how long the order input array is. Use System.out.print() to print a portion of an output line, and use System.out.println() to print a line and the carriage return to the next line. Make sure you handle the case where the inventory item description is not among those listed above – such as could happen with a typo or error.)
Here is your order input array: “bear,” “train,” “car,” “ball,” “doll,” “ball,” “train,” “doll,” “game,” “train,” “bear,” “doll,” “train,” “car,” “ball,” “bat,” “glove,” “bat,” “b,” “doll,” “bear,” “ball,” “doll,” “bat,” “car,” “glove,” “train,” “doll,” “bear”
July 13th, 2006 at 11:15 am
can u help?
July 13th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
Sure. Please email me with details using my contact form.
July 21st, 2006 at 6:59 pm
I have the same problems as Mitchell Grow. I was wondering if anyone can help me.
July 21st, 2006 at 7:42 pm
@Alan & Mitchell
Is this some class assignment? Why do you both have the same problem? It appears rather simple. But first I want to know the context and who is Jeff?
December 3rd, 2006 at 1:38 pm
The above java problem seems interesting.I am a beginner in java programming and would mind figuring out how the problem was solved.You can email me the solution thanks a lot.