Java

OOP GUIDE / WORK

DOG CLASS

Topics

• Introductory structure of a class (without constructors).
• Accessing instance variables and methods

TASK – PART 1 – DOG CLASS

Create the structure of class named Dog that will represent a dog object. It has the following specification:

• It has three characteristics/properties that will be called instance variables.

· public String breed – The breed of the dog.

· public String name – The dog’s name

· public int age – The dog’s age

• It has four behaviours that will be called by using instance methods.

· public void bark() – This method simply outputs “name is barking” on the screen.

· public void eat() – This method simply outputs “name is eating” on the screen.

· public void sleep() – This method simply outputs “name is sleeping” on the screen.

· public void fetch() – This method simply outputs “name is fetching” on the screen.

TASK – PART 2 – TESTING THE DOG CLASS

Create another class called DogTester and follow the following steps:

• Add a main function to the DogTester class.
  
  
• Inside main, Create a Dog object (using the built-in constructor).
  
  
• Set the dog’s three instance variables.
  
  
• Make the dog object bark, eat, sleep and fetch to understand how we can call instance methods.