Thread: Array problems...newby...confused?

I need to declare private vars-not static, and need to load arrays then output them to the console. I get some funky output:

The Baker College Grade Standard is:
Grade@19821f 90-100
Grade@addbf1 80-89
Grade@42e816 70-79
Grade@9304b1 60-69
Grade@190d11 50-59
Grade@a90653 0-49

My code is:

Anyone give me some guidance?

public class Grade {

private int gradeNumber;
private char[] letterGrade={'A','B','C','D','E','F'};
private String[] percent= "90-100","80-89","70-79","60-69","50-59","0-49"};

public void Grade(){
letterGrade[0] = ('A');
letterGrade[1] = ('B');
letterGrade[2] = ('C');
letterGrade[3] = ('D');
letterGrade[4] = ('E');
letterGrade[5] = ('F');

}


public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {

Grade[] stgrde = new Grade[6];


stgrde[0]=new Grade();
stgrde[1]=new Grade();
stgrde[2]=new Grade();
stgrde[3]=new Grade();
stgrde[4]=new Grade();
stgrde[5]=new Grade();

System.out.println("The Baker College Grade Standard is: ");

for(int i=0;i<6; i++){
System.out.println(stgrde[i]+" "+ percent[i]);

}

}

here are some modifications that should result in a program that gives the correct output.

this line:
private char[] letterGrade={'A','B','C','D','E','F'};
already initializes and loads up the array with the letters, so the code in the constructor is redundant. you should have an empty constructor.
what is happening now is that in the line:
System.out.println(stgrde[i]+" "+ percent[i]);

stgrade[i] is a Grade object, for which there is no string representation. so what Java does is it prints what i believe is the memory address of the Grade object which is why you get odd output like "Grade@19821f".

to rectify this, include a method in the Grade class that returns letterGrade and percent array as follows:

public char[] getLetterGradeArray()
{
return letterGrade;
}

public String[] getPercentArray()
{
return percent;
}

now change the System.out.println() statement to the following:
System.out.println(stgrde[i].getLetterGradeArray()[i]+" "+ stgrde[i].getPercentArray()[i]);

The creation of the stgrde array in your main method is redundant since you could simply create one grade object and have the output line be as follows:

Grade grade = new Grade();
System.out.println(grade.getLetterGradeArray()[i]+" "+ grade.getPercentArray()[i]);

also IOException is not thrown in the body of main, you can remove the 'throws IOException' clause