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Thread: help please

  1. March 9th, 2011, 05:06 PM #1
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    Default help please

    Now we want to return the age of the oldest kid rather than the name of the oldest kid, using a method called howOld. Your job is to complete the change so that the new method, howOld, properly returns the age of the oldest Infant.

    public String oldest(Infant[] kids){
  int oldAge = kids[0].getAge();
  int oldWho = 0; // position of oldest so far
  for (int who = 1; who < kids.length; who++)
  {
    if (kids[who].getAge() > oldAge){
      oldAge = kids[who].getAge();
      oldWho = who;
    }
  }
  return kids[oldWho].getName();
}
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  2. March 9th, 2011, 05:14 PM #2
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    Default Re: help please

    And what exactly is the problem? Have you tried to write the method 'howOld'?
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