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#1

I have been assigned a task at uni whereby I need to combine two classes. First I need to create the Name Class (code below) and then combine this with the student class so I no longer need to search for the name of the student in the Student Class. I am struggling setting the name so it appears in the Student Class. Can anyone help me with how to create the code so it sets a name to go into the Student Class?

public class Name
{
private String forename;
private String middleName;
private String surname;

/**
 * Constructor for objects of class Name
 * Set the fields needed to create a full name
 */
public Name(String studentsFirstName, String studentsMiddleName,
String studentsLastName)
{
    //instance variables
    forename = studentsFirstName;
    middleName = studentsMiddleName;
    surname = studentsLastName;
}
/**
 * A method to change the first name of the student
 */
public void changeFirstName(String replacementFirstName)
{
    //change first name
    forename = replacementFirstName;
}
/**
 * A method to change the middle name of the student
 */
public void changeMiddleName(String replacementMiddleName)
{
    //change middle name
    middleName = replacementMiddleName;
}
/**
 * A method to change the surname of the student
 */
public void changeSurname(String replacementSurname)
{
    //change surname
    surname = replacementSurname;
}
}
#2

Hello, @method9896207539, and welcome to the forums.

You’ve put this in the JavaScript category. It sure doesn’t look like JavaScript. C# maybe?

Also, for us to be more helpful, it helps if you format your code. For a block of code, it should appear between two otherwise blank lines that have three back ticks sometimes called back quotes on each:

```
code goes here
```
#3

I’m using bluej which uses javascript, so I assumed it would go in java?

#4

I’ve not heard of blueJ until now. Looks like it helps folks write Java code. Java was my next guess, but I don’t see a main method in your Name class. Perhaps bluej adds that later, or you just didn’t include it in the code you pasted? Anyhow, I took a gaze at BlueJ’s documentation. It includes some instructions on ‘dependencies’. You should check that out, or you could write the code yourself. You might google something like, ‘Java extends’.

#5

Thank you! I’ll have a look at that :slight_smile:

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