Thread: Objects, classes, lists true and false HELP!

Hello, I'm getting depressed over here, can't get anything done, so I figured I'd post one of my problems here, to see what happends.
Let's say I have this hotel, and I want to see what rooms are available, can I add my rooms to a list, and make them true & false, then only display 'true' rooms when checking what rooms are available?
I'm sorry I explain badly, it's getting late, but please, try to help.

Yes, you could. Try that and come back with code when you'd like some help.

Originally Posted by GregBrannon

Yes, you could. Try that and come back with code when you'd like some help.

Well I have alittle, I don't know if im on the right track or anything, but here it is

It's just a few rooms, with like.. a boolean, then it prints out everything, what I would like is for it to only print the 'true', but idk

public class RoomsTest {
 
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        List<Rooms> Room = new ArrayList<Rooms>();
 
        Rooms RoomA1 = new Rooms();
        Rooms RoomA2 = new Rooms();
        Rooms RoomA3 = new Rooms();
        Rooms RoomA4 = new Rooms();
 
        RoomA1.setBuilding("A");
        RoomA1.setNumber("1");
        RoomA1.setAvailable(true);
 
 
        RoomA2.setBuilding("A");
        RoomA2.setNumber("2");
        RoomA2.setAvailable(true);
 
        RoomA3.setBuilding("A");
        RoomA3.setNumber("3");
        RoomA3.setAvailable(true);
 
        RoomA4.setBuilding("A");
        RoomA4.setNumber("4");
        RoomA4.setAvailable(false);
 
        Room.add(RoomA1);
        Room.add(RoomA2);
        Room.add(RoomA3);
        Room.add(RoomA4);
 
        for ( Rooms x: Room )
        	System.out.print("\n"+(x)+" Available: "+x.isAvailable());

Your variable naming could be improved and might help you sort it and keep it straight in your mind.

Rooms should be a class called "Room" that contains the attributes for a single room. A hotel, nursing home, or some other place with multiple Room(s) would then have a collection of Room(s), like in . . .

An ArrayList is a collection of like objects, so I would call the ArrayList rooms:

List<Room> rooms = new ArrayList<Room>();

Notice that class names are capitalized and variable names are not.

Then, you could change this part:

Rooms RoomA1 = new Rooms();
Rooms RoomA2 = new Rooms();
Rooms RoomA3 = new Rooms();
Rooms RoomA4 = new Rooms();

To:

for ( int i = 0 ; i < 4 ; i++ )
{
    rooms.add( new Room() );
}

That eliminates the (incorrectly) named Room objects with different endings, like "RoomA2". Naming variables that way is annoying and difficult to keep track of and program efficiently.

To do this part with the ArrayList of Room objects:

RoomA1.setBuilding("A");
RoomA1.setNumber("1");
RoomA1.setAvailable(true);

You'd use the statements:

rooms.get( 1 ).setBuilding( "A" );
rooms.get( 1 ).setNumber( "1" );
rooms.get( 1 ).setAvailable( true );

which can now be done inside a loop that changes the index variable.

To print the available rooms, iterate the collection rooms, and print those where room.available = true.

Go down this path for a while, changing your code over as I've shown above, and come back when you need help. Be sure to post your latest code when you come back.

Wow, thanks, super helpful! I've accually gotten quite a bit on the rest of my code since my last post, so this was sweet, maybe it will become something in the end after all ;D thanks again.