Re: Newbie Java Help!!!

From:
Lew <lew@nowhere.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:13:35 -0500
Message-ID:
<drCdnRlF789tEzfYnZ2dnUVZ_v2nnZ2d@comcast.com>
BlackJackal wrote:

    public class Student
   {
      private int id;
      private int ch;
      private int pe;
      private double gpa;
       public static void main(String[] args)
      {


// main() does nothing, why is it here?

      }
       public void setid(int a)
      {
         id = a;
      }

....

       public void getid()
      {
         System.out.print(id);
      }

....

   }


Knute Johnson wrote:

As an aside, methods names should reflect what they do. get??? should
return something not be a print method. Your getID() should look like:

public String getID() {
    return studentID;
}


As another aside, by convention the property name part of get... and set...
methods begins with an upper-case letter, but otherwise duplicates the case of
the private variable, which should begin with a lower-case letter. In general
all identifiers use camel case - the first letter is lower case for variables
or methods, upper case for class names, each subsequent word part begins with
an upper-case letter, the other letters are lower case. So your methods would
be getId() and setId(). Longer names would look like
"thisIsALongerVariableName" or "ThisIsALongerClassName".

- Lew

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