/**
* The Student class represents a student in a student administration system.
* It holds the student details relevant in our context.
*
* @author Michael Kolling and David Barnes
* @version 2008.03.30
*/
public class Student
{
// the student's full name
private String name;
// the student ID
private String id;
// the amount of credits for study taken so far
private int credits;
private static String school = "No school assigned";
/**
* Create a new student with a given name and ID number.
*/
public Student(String fullName, String studentID)
{
name = fullName;
id = studentID;
credits = 0;
school = new String("SUNY at Stony Brook");
}
public void changeSchool (String newSchool)
{
school = newSchool;
}
/**
* Return the full name of this student.
*/
public String getName()
{
return name;
}
/**
* Set a new name for this student.
*/
public void changeName(String replacementName)
{
name = replacementName;
}
/**
* Return the student ID of this student.
*/
public String getStudentID()
{
return id;
}
/**
* Add some credit points to the student's accumulated credits.
*/
public void addCredits(int additionalPoints)
{
credits += additionalPoints;
}
/**
* Return the number of credit points this student has accumulated.
*/
public int getCredits()
{
return credits;
}
/**
* Return the login name of this student. The login name is a combination
* of the first four characters of the student's name and the first three
* characters of the student's ID number.
*/
public String getLoginName()
{
return name.substring(0,4) + id.substring(0,3);
}
public static String createLogin (String n, String i)
{
return n.substring(0,4) + i.substring(0,3);
}
/**
* Print the student's name and ID number to the output terminal.
*/
public void print()
{
System.out.println(name + " (" + id + ")");
}
public static void main (String [ ] args)
{
// Call a static method
String x = createLogin("Foobar", "47584");
System.out.println(x);
// Call a static variable/field
System.out.println(school);
Student s = new Student("John Smith", "36458363");
System.out.println( s.getStudentID() );
}
}