Thread: Assignment Help - Need to Figure Out How to Integrate the Classes

I'm given 2 classes. It's basically a game scoreboard and it runs through all the values to determine who the winner is. No user input is needed.
Sample output at the end looks like this:

Vancouver - 3 wins, 2 losses, 0 ties = 6 total points
    Calgary - 2 wins, 3 losses, 2 ties = 6 total points
    Edmonton - 1 wins, 3 losses, 2 ties = 4 total points
    Toronto - 2 wins, 3 losses, 2 ties = 6 total points
    Ottawa - 4 wins, 3 losses, 1 ties = 9 total points
    Montreal - 4 wins, 2 losses, 1 ties = 9 total points
 
    The season winner(s) with 9 points
    Ottawa
    Montreal

The two classes are Game.class and Schedule.class

Game.class

public class Game
{
 
    public Game(String s, String s1, int i, int j)
    {
        homeTeam = s;
        awayTeam = s1;
        homeScore = i;
        awayScore = j;
    }
 
    public String getHomeTeam()
    {
        return homeTeam;
    }
 
    public String getAwayTeam()
    {
        return awayTeam;
    }
 
    public int getHomeScore()
    {
        return homeScore;
    }
 
    public int getAwayScore()
    {
        return awayScore;
    }
 
    private String homeTeam;
    private String awayTeam;
    private int homeScore;
    private int awayScore;
}

Schedule.class

public class Schedule
{
 
    public Schedule()
    {
        games = new Game[20];
        games[0] = new Game(teams[0], teams[1], 5, 3);
        games[1] = new Game(teams[1], teams[2], 4, 4);
        games[2] = new Game(teams[2], teams[3], 3, 3);
        games[3] = new Game(teams[4], teams[3], 2, 4);
        games[4] = new Game(teams[4], teams[5], 6, 3);
        games[5] = new Game(teams[5], teams[1], 5, 4);
        games[6] = new Game(teams[0], teams[3], 4, 3);
        games[7] = new Game(teams[1], teams[4], 3, 4);
        games[8] = new Game(teams[2], teams[0], 2, 3);
        games[9] = new Game(teams[3], teams[1], 1, 4);
        games[10] = new Game(teams[4], teams[2], 5, 3);
        games[11] = new Game(teams[5], teams[3], 4, 4);
        games[12] = new Game(teams[1], teams[4], 3, 3);
        games[13] = new Game(teams[2], teams[5], 2, 4);
        games[14] = new Game(teams[3], teams[5], 1, 3);
        games[15] = new Game(teams[4], teams[0], 5, 4);
        games[16] = new Game(teams[5], teams[4], 4, 3);
        games[17] = new Game(teams[0], teams[3], 3, 4);
        games[18] = new Game(teams[5], teams[2], 2, 3);
        games[19] = new Game(teams[4], teams[1], 1, 4);
    }
 
    public String[] getTeams()
    {
        String as[] = {
            "Vancouver", "Calgary", "Edmonton", "Toronto", "Ottawa", "Montreal"
        };
        return as;
    }
 
    public Game getGame(int i)
    {
        return games[i];
    }
 
    public static final int GAMES = 20;
    private String teams[] = {
        "Vancouver", "Calgary", "Edmonton", "Toronto", "Ottawa", "Montreal"
    };
    private Game games[];
}

I admit that I really don't know where to start with this. I know I need to make a class that will invoke a main method to integrate the other 2 classes together. So it will output what I showed earlier to determine the winner, based on the score and games.
They provide these classes and I need to work on them. I don't understand how games[] is passed through. Under the schedule.class, is it just a parameter that's done 19 times? Any help is greatly appreciated. I really don't understand how to start with this.

how games[] is passed through

The code provides getGame() to get an element in games[]
The Game class has methods to get at the values it contains.
The Schedule class's constructor creates and initializes the games array.

Cross posted at Assignment Help - Need Help Integrating Classes - Dev Shed

Originally Posted by Norm

Cross posted at Assignment Help - Need Help Integrating Classes - Dev Shed

Yeah I posted to another site. I wasn't sure how big the following of users was on devshed. But it seems this forum is more comprehensive and larger than the other.

I appreciate you guys pointing me in the right direction. I'll check out the tutorial vids and work on the class that's gonna use the methods in game to use the array from schedule.
I'll update if I need more tips. Thanks

In Schedule class, the getGame method returns the values in the games array.

My issue is, how do I pass the getGame method through an object so it prints those values to output?

getGame(int i) being the method, would I make an object like this?

Game showGames = new Game();
System.out.println(getGame());

?

how do I pass the getGame method

You don't pass a method. You pass a reference to the class containing the method. If you create a new instance of the Game class it won't have the data from the other instance.
You can use the Arrays class's toString method to format an array for printing.

The Method getGame(int i) is a method that gets the value of the array games[]. By calling getgame() in the main method, we can get the values inside the array.We can get the attributes inside the games[] array by using loop method, we can use i--.