So basically my program is a StudySchedule where it takes user input (StudyTime, Subjects, PrioritizedSubjects, PriorityScale) and then creates a schedule based off each of those values. It begins with a class CreateSchedule which takes all the user input and then my other class CalculateScheduleTime takes the input and makes calculations (Calculate does extend to Create).
But when I request the variables from CreateSchedule, to CalculateScheduleTime, the variables appear as 0.0 rather than the number I had put in.
class CreateSchedule extends Test {
public String ScheduleName;
public double userStudyTime;
public double userSubjects;
public double userPrioritySubjects;
public double userSubjectScale;
public String getScheduleName() {
ScheduleName = setScheduleName();
return (ScheduleName);
}
public double getuserStudyTime() {
userStudyTime = setuserStudyTime();
return (userStudyTime);
}
public double getuserSubjects() {
userSubjects = setuserSubjects();
return (userSubjects);
}
public double getuserPrioritySubjects() {
userPrioritySubjects = setuserPrioritySubjects();
return (userPrioritySubjects);
}
public double getuserPriorityScale() {
userSubjectScale = setuserPriorityScale();
return (userSubjectScale);
}
public static String setScheduleName(){
System.out.println("What would you like to name your Schedule?");
Scanner sch = new Scanner(System.in);
return sch.nextLine();
}
public static double setuserStudyTime(){
System.out.println("How many hours are you studying for?");
Scanner sch = new Scanner(System.in);
return sch.nextDouble();
}
public static double setuserSubjects (){
System.out.println("How many subjects are you studying?");
Scanner sch = new Scanner(System.in);
return sch.nextDouble();
}
public static double setuserPrioritySubjects (){
System.out.println("How many subjects are you prioritizing?");
Scanner sch = new Scanner(System.in);
return sch.nextDouble();
}
public static double setuserPriorityScale (){
System.out.println("On a scale of 1 - 5, how much priority would you like to give the prioritized subjects?");
Scanner sch = new Scanner(System.in);
return sch.nextDouble();
}
public double confirm() {
System.out.println("Input Results:");
System.out.println("Schedule Name: " + ScheduleName);
System.out.println("Study Time: " + userStudyTime);
System.out.println("Subjects: " + userSubjects);
System.out.println("Priority Subjects: " + userPrioritySubjects);
System.out.println("Priority Scale" + userSubjectScale);
return (0);
}
}
class CalculateScheduleTime extends CreateSchedule {
public double SubjectPriorityTime;
public double SubjectRemainderTime;
public CalculateScheduleTime() {
}
public double calcSubjectPriorityTime() {
System.out.println("Priority" + userSubjectScale);
double PriorityPercent = ((double) (userSubjectScale / 5.0));
System.out.println(userSubjectScale);
SubjectPriorityTime = ((double) (PriorityPercent * userStudyTime));
System.out.println("Time to Prioritized Subject is: " + SubjectPriorityTime);
return (SubjectPriorityTime);
}
public double calcSubjectRemainderTime() {
System.out.println("Remainder");
SubjectRemainderTime = ((double) (SubjectPriorityTime - userStudyTime));
System.out.println("Remainder time to Subject is: " + SubjectRemainderTime);
return (SubjectRemainderTime);
}
}
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) {
CreateSchedule user = new CreateSchedule();
user.getScheduleName();
user.getuserStudyTime();
user.getuserSubjects();
user.getuserPrioritySubjects();
user.getuserPriorityScale();
user.confirm();
CalculateScheduleTime calc = new CalculateScheduleTime();
calc.calcSubjectPriorityTime();
calc.calcSubjectRemainderTime();
}
}
That's not what subclassing is for.
A class describes what a given instance can do. "Dog" is a class. "Lassie" is an instance of it.
Subclassing is a thing you do to concepts, not instances. You might for example have a class "Animal", and a subclass "Dog": Dog simply specializes Animal: Any Dog is also an Animal and therefore can do and has all the properties that all Animals have, and perhaps a few additional things and properties (in java parlance: It would have all fields and methods of the superclass, and can add more. It cannot remove any).
When you write CreateSchedule user = new CreateSchedule();
that's like writing: Dog rover = new Dog();
- then you write CalculateScheduleTime calc = new CalculateScheduleTime();
which is like writing GermanSchnauser fifi = new GermanSchauser();
.
You made a whole new dog, which gets its own copy of all those fields, which are all still 0 - uninitialized.
The 'calc' stuff should just go in CreateSchedule
, probably. But there is a ton wrong with this code:
getX
should not have sideeffects.calcX()
methods store the result in a field, return it, and that field is never actually used anywhere. Just return it, don't have that field.