Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Look at the following class definition:

public class Dog {
private int age = 0; // age is given in years, the default value is 0
private String name = "Fido"; // default name is Fido

Dog(String firstName, int firstAge) {
name = firstName;
age = firstAge;

if (age < 0) {
age = 0;
}
}

public void setName(String newName) {
name = newName;
}

public int getAge() {
return age;
}

public String getName() {
return name;
}

public void haveBirthdayParty() {
age = age + 1;
System.out.println("Happy birthday " + name + "! You are now " + age + " years old!");
}

public void printInfo() {
System.out.println("This dog's name is " + name + " and he's " + age + " years old!");
}
}

Make a post containing your answers to all of the questions below:

  1. Can you create a new dog without specifying its name? Why or why not?
  2. Which of the Dog class's methods are accessors? Which ones are mutators?
  3. Can you use the methods provided to make a dog younger? (In other words, can you set age to a lower value than it already was?)
  4. When you create a new dog, what happens if you try to set its age to a negative value?
  5. Complete the main method below by writing code underneath each comment (assume the program has access to the Dog class).

public static void main(String[] args) {

// Put together a new Dog object. You can give it any name you want, but the age must be 3

// Call the printInfo method to print the dog's information

// Call the haveBirthdayParty method so the dog becomes 4 years old
}

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