Skip to main content

IntroJava Lab4

This week we are learning about inheritance and Polymorphism


Question 1
Create a new class called Clock with the integer attributes hour, minute and second. Create a constructor that allows all instance variable to be initialized. Add a method called displayTime().

Create a subclass called AlarmClock. AlarmClock should have additional object attribute called alarmHour and alarmMinute. Add a constructor that accepts radius and length. Add a method called displayAlarmTime().

 Create a main method to create two instance of the Clock- GrandPaClock and WallClock.
Add two instances of AlarmClock - WristWatch and DeskClock. Add all objects into an array and print the time on all clocks.


Question 2 
a. Create a new class called Circle.
b. Add an instance variable called radius for circle.
c. Add a constructor that accepts a radius as a parameter.
d. Add a default constructor that does not accept any parameters and assigns a 1 to radius.
e. Add a getter method that can be used to get the value of the radius. This method returns a double.
f. Add a setter method that can be used to set the value of the radius. This method does not return a value. It accepts a double value as a parameter.
g. Add method to calculate the area of the circle, getArea().
h. In the main method, create a circle c1 using default constructor. Print c1's area to the console.
i. Change radius of the circle to 3 and then print the area to console.

j. Create another circle c2 by providing the radius as 9. Print c2's area to the console.
k. create another class called Cylinder that inherits from Circle class. Cylinder class has an additional attribute called length.
l. Add a default constructor that accepts no parameter and another constructor that accepts radius and length.
m. Add getters and setters for length
n. Add a method called getArea()

o. In the main method to create an instance of cylinder c3 using default constructor. print the area of c3.
p. Set the radius of c3 to 2 and set the length of c3 to 5. Print area of c3 again.
q. create another cylinder c4 by passing 3 as the radius and 9 as the length. print the area of c4
r. (optional) Add c1, c2, c3,  and c4 into an array. Using foreach call each objects getArea(). Which getArea() method was called for each object, the one from circle or the one from the cylinder. Did you notice the polymorphic behavior?

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

CUMIPMT and CUMPRINC function

CUMIPMT Cumulative interest payment function allows you to calculate the interest paid for a loan or from an investment from period A to period B. When getting a loan, CUMIPMT function can be used to calculate the total amount of interest paid in the first five months or from period 12 to period 20. A period can be a month, a week or two week. Loan Amount : 350,000.00 APR: 4.5% Down payment: 0.00 Years: 25 Payment per year: 12 From the above data, we can calculate the following: No of Period: 25 × 12 = 300 Periodic Rate: 4.5/12 = 0.375% Here is how you will substitute these values into the function. = CUMIPMT (periodic rate, No of period, vehicle price, start period, end period,  ) = CUMIPMT (0.375, 300, 350000, 1, 5, 0) In an excel worksheet, we use cell address instead of actual values as shown below: Here is the formula view of the worksheet: CUMPRINC Another related function is CUMPRINC. CUMPRINC function is used to calculate cumul

Excel PMT Function

PMT function is very useful for calculating monthly payment required to payback a loan or mortgage at a fixed rate. This function require a minimum of three inputs, periodic rate, number of periods, present value or the loan amount. Here is a simple example. Home Loan: 350,000.00 Interest rate: 4.5% Number of years to repay the loan: 25 Note: To calculate monthly payment, we need to find the monthly rate and number of months as shown above. Then it is simply a matter of substituting the values into the payment function, as shown in the formula view below.

BCG's Brand Advocacy Index

The Boston Consulting Group's (BCG) Brand Advocacy Index (BAI) is a metric developed to help companies measure the degree of customer advocacy for their brands. BAI focuses on the likelihood of customers to recommend a brand to others, which is a powerful indicator of brand strength and customer loyalty. Unlike other customer satisfaction or loyalty metrics, BAI emphasizes the importance of customer referrals and word-of-mouth marketing. BAI is calculated based on a survey where customers are asked about their willingness to recommend a brand to their friends, family, or colleagues. The responses are then used to compute a score, which ranges from -100 to 100. A higher BAI score indicates that a brand has more advocates who are likely to recommend the brand to others, while a lower score suggests that the brand has fewer advocates or even a higher number of detractors. BCG's research has shown that companies with higher BAI scores tend to experience higher growth rates and bett