Re: Needs help in editing

From:
Lew <noone@lewscanon.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:40:53 -0400
Message-ID:
<iu7qv2$hhr$1@news.albasani.net>
William Colls wrote:

I think we are being asked to someone's school assignment. Better he does it
himself.


PLEASE do not top-post.

The OP showed us what he's starting with and asked for _help_, not to "" his
assignment. (I assume your missing verb is "do".)

So let's give him some help, if that's OK with you, O Snarky One?

On 11-06-23 02:25 PM, Eric wrote:

Hi guys: Can any one please help me how to i [sic] do the changes in my
program according to the following 4 changes.

1) Create a Date type birth data instance field in the Employee class,
not a String


Do you know how to declare a variable to be of a certain type?

It's done like this:

   SomeType variable;

Do you know where the 'Date' type is in the standard Java API?
<http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/package-frame.html>

Do you know how to declare instance members?
<http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/classvars.html>

2) Enlarge the constructors for the Employee class and subclasses to
pass the int month, int day, and int year of the birth date as input
by the user to PayrollSystemTest to the subclass constructor, and then
to the Employee class constructor


Do you know how to pass arguments to a constructor? It's very similar to how
to pass arguments to a method.
<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index-jsp-135888.html>
<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/prog-140388.html#const>
<http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/constructors.html>
<http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/methods.html>

3) Input from the user for the 5 specific employees and then comment
out the hardcoding for the 4 employees in the original code


Do you have your class notes on how to get input?

4) Report monthly salary amounts and include the November birthday
bonus


Do you have your class notes on how to present output?

<http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/io/index.html>

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