Help required with programming in Java

[ad216]

Hello,

I go to the University of Toronto and I am a first year student requiring help with my first year computer science course. I have no programming background but I need this course for my Statistics, Mathematics, and Economics majors.
We recieved our first assignment and I am totally lost. Any sort of help will be appreciated; this assignment looks long but in the words of our prof, "the coding is very simple". There are a few rules. If anyone wishes to post their version of a complete code for this assignment, I would not mind - it would help a great deal. If you wish to talk to me privately, my msn/email is amit.dhand@utoronto.ca. Here is the assignment link:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~campbell/108/05w/assignments/a1/index.shtml

Thank you anyone for helping,

Amit

[Tony]

ad216 wrote:

If anyone wishes to post their version of a complete code for this assignment, I would not mind

I bet your prof will. Come on buddy - you go to a University. (UofT at that - which as far as I'm conserned doesn't have bears; that has got to suggest some kind of a status)

anyways, it would majorly suck to get caugh cheating on your first assignment, don't you think? This isn't highschool - you're lucky if you get away with a 0. My buddy has gotten it worse for letting someone (from another program) look at his code for a similar assignment.

[wtd]

Quote:

For this assignment, you are asked to produce four classes: ClassRoom, AVEquipment, ClassRoomTester, and AVEquipmentTester.

Do you know how to write the basic outline for these classes? Hint: it's the same for each, with the exception of the class name.

[ad216]

I don't ask you guys complete the code....but rather, I was wondering if anyone can help me get started. The concepts are understandable, but it's the "flow" of the code that confuses me. Like, where do I begin, what do I need to write, etc...

But thanks anyways

[rizzix]

start with code design (already done for you).. then write the testcases.

then do the coding (of the classes).. and run relevant testcases now-and-then to make sure the stuff runs right.

[ad216]

rizzix wrote:

start with code design (already done for you).. then write the testcases.

then do the coding (of the classes).. and run relevant testcases now-and-then to make sure the stuff runs right.

You want me to write the tests before writing the code? That's something our teacher never did...but it makes more sense that way. I'm sorry if I'm sounding very elementary, but this is stuff is a whole new world to me, but for you guys it must be like repeating the first letters of the alpahabet. So, in other words, if giving me ideas, please elaborate on them.

Thank You

[rizzix]

well assuming ur XP'ing.. then yea testcases before code. and u can't xp without a partner. but u can follow a similar protocol.. no harm done.

PS: just make sure your tests are rigorous. xp relies on tedious and detalied tests