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Learn Java with Projects

You're reading from   Learn Java with Projects A concise practical guide to learning everything a Java professional really needs to know

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837637188
Length 598 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maaike van Putten Maaike van Putten
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Dr. Seán Kennedy Dr. Seán Kennedy
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Java Fundamentals
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Java FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Variables and Primitive Data Types 4. Chapter 3: Operators and Casting 5. Chapter 4: Conditional Statements 6. Chapter 5: Understanding Iteration 7. Chapter 6: Working with Arrays 8. Chapter 7: Methods 9. Part 2: Object-Oriented Programming
10. Chapter 8: Classes, Objects, and Enums 11. Chapter 9: Inheritance and Polymorphism 12. Chapter 10: Interfaces and Abstract Classes 13. Chapter 11: Dealing with Exceptions 14. Chapter 12: Java Core API 15. Part 3: Advanced Topics
16. Chapter 13: Generics and Collections 17. Chapter 14: Lambda Expressions 18. Chapter 15: Streams – Fundamentals 19. Chapter 16: Streams: Advanced Concepts 20. Chapter 17: Concurrency 21. Index

Project – Dino tracker

Safety always comes first. That’s why keeping track of all our dinosaur residents is of utmost importance. The park managers need to have an easy-to-use system for managing information about their slightly exotic pets.

For this project, you’ll be creating a Dino tracker. This is a simple tracking system that maintains records of each dinosaur’s name, age, species, and enclosure number. This will be done using fixed arrays – four arrays in total, one for each attribute.

Assume you have room for 10 dinosaurs in your park for now, so each array should have a length of 10. Each dinosaur will correspond to an index in the array. For example, if the dinosaur “Rex” is in the first position of the name array, his age, species, and enclosure number will also be in the first position of their respective arrays.

You’re going to print information about all the dinosaurs and print their average age and weight...

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