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We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))
Teaching Object Oriented Java with Students and Ice Cream

"I'm getting tired of students. Can we do something else". So said my delegates at Cardiff University today. So we did Ice Cream and other deserts!

Perhaps I had better explain. I'm running a Java Course there, and looking for examples of classes and objects to write about. At the start of the course, delegates know diddly squat about OO design, and how it works in Java, so the first sample programs they write are tentative steps and using only an edited selection of the facilities available. Then they extend the example and find that "I wish I had known before I started that I would be going this way" but the catch is that they couldn't have known - too much information before the first practical means a poor practical and some points missed. So after the first example has been written, stretched, overstretched and pulled apart nearly to the point of breaking we consolidate the knowledge gained into a fresh example which can be written, from the beginning with the end target in mind.

I'm not doing to show you any of the "student" examples. They look horrid / they show things that are kludged together nastily and I would be ashamed of them. But I will show you the Dairy Queen class!

public class DairyQueen {
 
  public static void main (String [] args) {
 
    Desert [] Ice = new Desert[6];
 
    Ice[0] = new Icecream("Chocolate", 1000, 100,0);
    Ice[1] = new Icecream("Vanilla", 1400, 150,-15);
    Ice[2] = new Icecream("Strawberry", 1200, 100,-15);
    Ice[3] = new Icecream("Nut", 900, 100,-15);
    Ice[4] = new Icecream("Pistaccio", 450, 50,-25);
    Ice[5] = new Colddesert(1500,90,-10,"Strawberry and courgette cheesecake");
 
    for (int k=0; k       String what = Ice[k].getwhat();
      int cals = Ice[k].getcals();
      int wei = Ice[k].getweight();
 
      System.out.print(what);
      System.out.print(" ");
      System.out.print(cals);
      System.out.print(" ");
      System.out.println(wei);
    }
  }
}


And how does that run?

Dorothy:febjava grahamellis$ java DairyQueen
Chocolate flavoured Ice Cream 1000 100
Vanilla flavoured Ice Cream 1400 150
Strawberry flavoured Ice Cream 1200 100
Nut flavoured Ice Cream 900 100
Pistachio flavoured Ice Cream 450 50
Strawberry and courgette cheesecake and custard 90 1500
Dorothy:febjava grahamellis$


Now - do you feel cheated that I've not shown you all the code? I'm glad you've noticed that I've not shown you everything but that's the very joy of Object Oriented programming. YOU write the bits that YOU know about, someone else writes all the detail that they know about, they hide it within a class of objects and you keep calling the class methods as you need too. This hiding stuff within is known as encapsulation!


Full code? Oh - if you MUST ;-)


Desert.java - basic object for a desert
Insurable.java - how to define something that's insurable
Icecream.java - an ice cream desert is a desert with other features
Colddesert.java - a cold desert is another type of desert
DairyQueen.java - the whole application (above) which pulls it together
(written 2008-02-12, updated 2008-02-13)

 
Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles
Q907 - Object Orientation and General technical topics - Object Orientation: Design Techniques
  [80] OO - real benefits - (2004-10-09)
  [236] Tapping in on resources - (2005-03-05)
  [507] Introduction to Object Oriented Programming - (2005-11-27)
  [534] Design - one name, one action - (2005-12-19)
  [656] Think about your design even if you don't use full UML - (2006-03-24)
  [747] The Fag Packet Design Methodology - (2006-06-06)
  [831] Comparison of Object Oriented Philosophy - Python, Java, C++, Perl - (2006-08-13)
  [836] Build on what you already have with OO - (2006-08-17)
  [1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice - (2007-01-21)
  [1217] What are factory and singleton classes? - (2007-06-04)
  [1224] Object Relation Mapping (ORM) - (2007-06-09)
  [1435] Object Oriented Programming in Perl - Course - (2007-11-18)
  [1528] Object Oriented Tcl - (2008-02-02)
  [2169] When should I use OO techniques? - (2009-05-11)
  [2170] Designing a heirarcy of classes - getting inheritance right - (2009-05-11)
  [2327] Planning! - (2009-08-08)
  [2380] Object Oriented programming - a practical design example - (2009-08-27)
  [2501] Simples - (2009-11-12)
  [2523] Plan your application before you start - (2009-12-02)
  [2717] The Multiple Inheritance Conundrum, interfaces and mixins - (2010-04-11)
  [2741] What is a factory? - (2010-04-26)
  [2747] Containment, Associative Objects, Inheritance, packages and modules - (2010-04-30)
  [2785] The Light bulb moment when people see how Object Orientation works in real use - (2010-05-28)
  [2865] Relationships between Java classes - inheritance, packaging and others - (2010-07-10)
  [2878] Program for reliability and efficiency - do not duplicate, but rather share and re-use - (2010-07-19)
  [2889] Should Python classes each be in their own file? - (2010-07-27)
  [2953] Turning an exercise into the real thing with extreme programming - (2010-09-11)
  [2977] What is a factory method and why use one? - Example in Ruby - (2010-09-30)
  [3063] Comments in and on Perl - a case for extreme OO programming - (2010-11-21)
  [3085] Object Oriented Programming for Structured Programmers - conversion training - (2010-12-14)
  [3260] Ruby - a training example that puts many language elements together to demonstrate the whole - (2011-04-23)
  [3454] Your PHP website - how to factor and refactor to reduce growing pains - (2011-09-24)
  [3607] Designing your application - using UML techniques - (2012-02-11)
  [3760] Why you should use objects even for short data manipulation programs in Ruby - (2012-06-10)
  [3763] Spike solutions and refactoring - a Python example - (2012-06-13)
  [3798] When you should use Object Orientation even in a short program - Python example - (2012-07-06)
  [3844] Rooms ready for guests - each time, every time, thanks to good system design - (2012-08-20)
  [3878] From Structured to Object Oriented Programming. - (2012-10-02)
  [3887] Inheritance, Composition and Associated objects - when to use which - Python example - (2012-10-10)
  [3928] Storing your intermediate data - what format should you you choose? - (2012-11-20)
  [3978] Teaching OO - how to avoid lots of window switching early on - (2013-01-17)
  [4098] Using object orientation for non-physical objects - (2013-05-22)
  [4374] Test driven development, and class design, from first principles (using C++) - (2014-12-30)
  [4430] The spirit of Java - delegating to classes - (2015-02-18)
  [4449] Spike solution, refactoring into encapsulated object methods - good design practise - (2015-03-05)
  [4628] Associative objects - one object within another. - (2016-01-20)

J710 - Java - Extending Classes and More
  [1066] Final, Finally and Finalize - three special words in Java - (2007-02-05)
  [1294] An example of Java Inheritance from scratch - (2007-08-00)
  [1501] Java - using super to call a method in the parent class - (2008-01-10)
  [1556] Java - a demonstration of inheritance on just one page - (2008-02-26)
  [1819] Calling base class constructors - (2008-10-03)
  [2185] Abstract Classes - Java - (2009-05-16)
  [2434] Abstract classes, Interfaces, PHP and Java - (2009-10-03)
  [2604] Tips for writing a test program (Ruby / Python / Java) - (2010-01-29)
  [2860] What methods are available on this Java object? - (2010-07-08)
  [3047] What is a universal superclass? Java / Perl / Python / Other OO languages - (2010-11-13)
  [4334] Splitting out code into name blocks for clarity and reusability - (2014-11-30)
  [4366] Changing what operators do on objects - a comparison across different programming languages - (2014-12-26)
  [4394] Philosophy behind object design - and how I applied in to a Java example - (2015-01-14)
  [4419] Java Inheritance example - group of classes - step by step - (2015-02-08)
  [4422] Objects - from physical to virtual or abstract - Java - (2015-02-10)


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