[chookscratchings]

Hi,

Could someone please offer some useful tips as I'm new to C# and stuck with this.

I have created a base class Person and the derived classes Admin, FT, PT, LocStudent and IntStudent.

Now, I need to create an array of type Person and instantiate all derived classes above as 5 separate elements of an array.

I also need to hard code calls to each constructor.

Person [] = new Person [5];

Person[0] = new FT_Teacher("Jerry", "MacGuire",1);

The derived class FT_Teacher contained the following:

public class FT_Teacher : Teacher
    {

        int teachLoad = 0;
        double salary = 0;
        
        public FT_Teacher(String familyName, String givenName, int employeeID)
            :base(familyName, givenName, employeeID)
        {
        }    

        public override double ComputeAmount(double amount)
        {
            return (salary/52)*(teachLoad / 40);
        }

        // Override ComputeLeave method to apply to FT Teacher.
        public override int ComputeLeave(int leave)
        {
            return (teachLoad / 40) * 28;
        }

        // public override void PrintDetails;
        public override void  PrintDetails()
        {
            throw new NotImplementedException(); //Just a dummy response at this stage.
        }  
    }

It's spitting back the error "Must contain a return type" at me.

What am I doing wrong? help, Im pulling my hair out -- and I am naturally bald!!

This post has been edited by eclipsed4utoo: 14 March 2010 - 07:01 AM
Reason for edit:: please use the code tags....[code] your code here [/code]

[eclipsed4utoo]

where are you receiving the error message?

[chookscratchings]

hey yeah,

red squiggle lines appear under Person[0] = new FT_Teacher("Jerry","Macguire",1);

- that's where it's returning the floating compile warning (sorry, as opposed to error) - method must return a type. Isn't Person my declared type?

[JackOfAllTrades]

Person [] persons = new Person [5];
persons [0] = new FT_Teacher("Jerry", "MacGuire",1);

[chookscratchings]

Hi hahahah yeah forgot to show that in my code I had done as you had shown above -- ie. I have also declared the variable name for the array..

It just doesn't seem to behave itself without reminding me "must return a type". Am stumped..

This post has been edited by chookscratchings: 14 March 2010 - 11:40 AM

[Bent al-Yemen]

i don't know if i can put my post here,if you please Mrchookscratchings, but it's very related to this topic.
Here, in this code:

Person [] persons = new Person [5];
persons [0] = new FT_Teacher("Jerry", "MacGuire",1);

if i want to search for the element" Jerry", how can i do that in this array.
Another thing, if i don't know number of persons in this example, how can i change it to ArrayList.

i hope to get satisfying answer ,Thaaaaaaanx.

This post has been edited by Bent al-Yemen: 15 March 2010 - 01:24 AM

[Bent al-Yemen]

[Adkins]

First off bumping to receive an answer is normally frowned upon, but this time I will give the answer that I can. To make the code you gave into an ArrayList use the following:

Collection<Person> persons = new Collection<Person>;
persons.Add(new FT_Teacher("Jerry", "MacGuire",1));

[Bent al-Yemen]

Quote

First off bumping to receive an answer is normally frowned upon

Thanx a lot for your answer, but i didn't get this point. can you tell me what do you mean.For me i didn't mean anything at all, i just wanted to rise the topic.
Thanx

[Adkins]

Raising the topic is called "bumping" It is normally not a pleasant tactic to use. If you have more information or wish to clarify something in your post by all means go for it. But posting again simply to get your post back in the spotlight is not really that cool.

[Bent al-Yemen]

Adkins, on 15 March 2010 - 11:25 AM, said:

Raising the topic is called "bumping" It is normally not a pleasant tactic to use. If you have more information or wish to clarify something in your post by all means go for it. But posting again simply to get your post back in the spotlight is not really that cool.

Ok, sorry

i was worried that you'll not notice that there's a new post in the topic, because it's not my topic as you can see.

I have a question here:

Collection<Person> persons = new Collection<Person>

Is it " List<>" , i have many c# book, but this the firs time is see "collection">

[Adkins]

A List is a type of Collection. They work basically the same, and to the best of my knowledge there is little to no difference. If you are more comfortable with a List because you have seen it in your books and there for have a point of reference for it, then simply replace the word Collection with the word List in my previous code.

[Bent al-Yemen]

ok, thank you so much Mr Adkins for your reply, i still have the question in my first reply " How can i search for an element inside an array or in a List if it is in this form:

Collection<Person> persons = new Collection<Person>;
persons.Add(new FT_Teacher("Jerry", "MacGuire",1));

i have an object that contains more than element, if i want to search for the "Jerry " for example, how??

I'm not repeating my post, I'm clarifying it.

This post has been edited by Bent al-Yemen: 15 March 2010 - 03:40 AM

[baavgai]

Here's some example code for a search. I had to extrapolate your classes. You might want to look at that, too.

public class Person {
	protected string familyName, givenName;

	public Person(string familyName, string givenName) {
		this.familyName = familyName;
		this.givenName = givenName;
	}

	public string FamilyName { get { return familyName; } }

	public string GivenName { get { return givenName; } }

	public override string ToString() {
		return "Person: " + this.givenName + " " + this.familyName;
	}
}


public abstract class Employee : Person {
	protected int employeeID;

	protected Employee(string familyName, string givenName, int employeeID)
		: base(familyName, givenName) {
		this.employeeID = employeeID;
	}

	public int EmployeeID { get { return employeeID; } }

	public abstract void PrintDetails();

	public abstract double Salary { get; }
}


public abstract class Teacher : Employee {
	// I didn't understand why you'd pass values to these, 
	// so I took the parameters out
	protected Teacher(String familyName, String givenName, int employeeID) : base(familyName, givenName, employeeID) { }

	public abstract double ComputeAmount();
	public abstract int ComputeLeave();

}

public class FT_Teacher : Teacher {
	// having these 0 makes little sense
	int teachLoad = 0;
	// double salary = 0;

	public FT_Teacher(String familyName, String givenName, int employeeID) : base(familyName, givenName, employeeID) { }

	public override double ComputeAmount() { return (Salary / 52) * (teachLoad / 40); }

	public override int ComputeLeave() { return (teachLoad / 40) * 28; }

	// again, going by your model.  poor guy
	public override double Salary { get { return 0; } }

	public override void PrintDetails() { throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}

//....

List<Person> list = new List<Person>();
list.Add(new FT_Teacher("MacGuire", "Jerry", 1));
list.Add(new Person("Lin", "Tam"));
list.Add(new Person("O'Bedlam", "Tom"));

// find with loop
foreach (Person person in list) {
	if (person.GivenName.Equals("Tom")) {
		Console.WriteLine(person);
		break;
	}
}

// find with built in search
Console.WriteLine(
	list.Find(delegate(Person person) { return person.GivenName.Equals("Jerry"); })
);

Hope this helps.

[Bent al-Yemen]

Thank you soooo much Mr baavgai , i appreciate your help. I'll see if it'll help finish my code.