Do not use the scanner class or any other user input request. You application should be self-contained and run without user input.

Assignment Objectives

• Practice on creating classes
  • you will create the FootballPlayer and the Height classes
• Practice on using information hiding
  • FootballPlayer and Height will have private attributes and provide get/set methods
• Learn how to create more complex classes
  • the FootballPlayer class uses another class, Height as one of its attributes

Deliverables

A zipped Java project according to the How to submit Labs and Assignments guide.

O.O. Requirements (these items will be part of your grade)

• One class, one file. Don't create multiple classes in the same .java file
• Don't use static variables and methods
• Encapsulation: make sure you protect your class variables and provide access to them through get and set methods
• all the classes are required to have a constructor that receives all the attributes as parameters and updates the attributes accordingly
• all the classes are required to have an "empty" constructor that receives no parameters but updates all the attributes as needed
• Follow Horstmann's Java Language Coding Guidelines
• Organized in packages (MVC - Model - View Controller)

Contents

• Start with this NetBeans project Download this NetBeans projector create one with
  • • App.java
  • Model
    • Model.java
    • FootballPlayer.java
    • Height.java

Functionality

• The application App creates a Model object
• The Model class
  • creates 3 FootballPlayer objects
  • compares the height of the three FootballPlayer objects
  • displays a message stating who is the tallest

The classes

• App
  • it has the main method which is the method that Java looks for and runs to start any application
  • it creates an object (an instance) of the Model class
• Model
  • this is the class where all the action is going to happen
  • it creates three football players and compare their heights
  • displays the information for the three players as output
  • displays a message stating who is taller or if they are of the same height
    • Ignore the start-up code comment and please use this requirement.
  • make sure you test your application for all the possible cases
    • run your program at least 4 times, changing the heights slightly so that you can test all possibilities in your if statements.
• FootballPlayer
  • has the following attributes
    • int number;
    • String name;
    • String position;
    • Height height;
    • int weight;
    • String hometown;
    • String highSchool;
• Height
  • it is a class (or type) which is used in FootballPlayer defining the type of the attribute height
  • it has two attributes
    • int feet;
    • int inches
    • it also has a method that returns a formatted string with feet and inches
      • for instance: 5'2"
      • the purpose of this method is to return a string value in this format to be displayed to the user
  • Suggestion for improvement and ease of use in height comparisons:
    • Define a new get method: getHeightInInches() which returns the total height in inches

NOTE: Be sure to copy/paste the output results of all of your test runs as a comment block in your App.java source code file. Supplying evidence of successful and complete testing of your application is always required.