Java: An Introduction to Problem Solving and Programming (7th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780133766264
Author: Walter Savitch
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6, Problem 5E
Consider a class characteristic that will be used in an online dating service to assess how compatible two people are. Its attributes are
- description—a string that identifies the characteristic
- rating—an integer between 1 and 10 that indicates a person’s desire for this characteristic in another person
- a. Write a constructor that sets the description of the characteristic to a given string and sets the rating to zero to indicate that it has not yet been determined.
- b. Write a private method isValid (aRating) that returns true if the given rating is valid, that is. is between 1 and 10.
- c. Write a method setRating(aRating) that sets the rating to aRating if it is valid.
- d. Write a method setRating that reads a rating from the keyboard, insisting that the rating supplied by the user be valid.
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