Thread: Help writing a Template Class

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I have been trying to figure this out for hours... My book and the lectures do not provide any clear examples of how to do this. It's so frustrating because I have other school courses to worry about as well but this is just taking FOREVER


Write a template class to represent a dice. The dice has one attribute which is number of sides. The class should have all the usual class methods and an additional method that will “roll” the dice. This method uses the Random number generator to “roll” a number between one and the number of sides of the dice; the method returns the number rolled.


This is what I have so far:

import java.util.random;
 
public class Dice {
 
	{
		int sideOne;
		int sideTwo;
		int sideThree;
		int sideFour;
		int sideFive;
		int sideSix;
 
		public Dice() {
			sideOne = 1;
			sideTwo = 2;
			sideThree = 3;	
			sideFour = 4;
			sideFive = 5;
			sideSix = 6;
 
		}
 
		//use the random class in the methods
 
 
	}
 
}

After I'm done with this class I need to write an application class that rolls two dice but I'll try to figure that out on my own once i get this template class written

If I'm reading this correctly, then this is all you need to do.

import java.util.Random;
 
public class Dice {
	int numOfSides;
    Random rand;
 
    public Dice(int numOfSides) {
    	this.numOfSides = numOfSides;
    	rand = new Random();
    }
 
    public int rollDie(){
    	return rand.nextInt(numOfSides);
    }    
}

If you need a main method then it would look like this:

import java.util.Random;
 
public class Dice {
	int numOfSides;
    Random rand;
 
    public Dice(int numOfSides) {
    	this.numOfSides = numOfSides;
    	rand = new Random();
    }
 
    public static int rollDie(){
    	return rand.nextInt(numOfSides);
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args){
    	Dice dice = new Dice(6);
    	System.out.println(dice.rollDie());
    } 
}