Test score average

[ryn21]

I have to write a program that reads a student's name together with his test scores. Then i have to compute the average for each student. I must make a void method to calculate the average then a value returning method to determine the students grade. How do i combine the name with the average when reading the scores from a text file?

[Fubarable]

Much depends on how the data is laid out in the text file. That will determine how you read in the data. next you probably want to create a Student class that holds the name String and the numeric data that is read in for each student.

[ryn21]

each line is the last name then five scores, such as:
Johnson 85 76 88 90 67

[Eranga]

SO you have a line of text simply. Need to separate them each depends on the space character within each two segments.

[Fubarable]

I would use a Scanner object to read in each line of the file and put it into a String. I'd then call split(" ") on the same String to split it into a array of 6 small Strings (tokens), the name and the 5 test scores. I'd then create a new Student object and place this data, the name String, and the parsed int scores into the new student object, then place this student object into a collection such as an arraylist,.....

[ryn21]

the problem is i havent learned split yet but we have just learned StringBuffer. Would i be able to use that some how?

[ryn21]

im so lost right now, trying to learn this chapter on methods and write this program is starting to feel hopeless

[emceenugget]

Are you not allowed to independently look up methods to use?

If you can't use split(), then I'm assuming you can't use charAt() (since they're both methods of String), which pretty much means you can't do your project.

[Eranga]

Can you show your code, what you have done so far. The way Fubarable explain is the most perfect way for me.

[Supamagier]

I would use a Scanner object to read in each line of the file and put it into a String. I'd then call split(" ") on the same String to split it into a array of 6 small Strings (tokens), the name and the 5 test scores. I'd then create a new Student object and place this data, the name String, and the parsed int scores into the new student object, then place this student object into a collection such as an arraylist,.....

Or you read the data from the file (I prefer a (Buffered) FileReader) and when you read 1 line, you try to parse it as an int. If an Exception is thrown you know that's the name of the student. Than you can read the remaining lines and put them in an array.

[nemesis]

sir.. do you have any codes for this.. because we have the same problem..:confused::confused: please?

[Eranga]

Or you read the data from the file (I prefer a (Buffered) FileReader) and when you read 1 line, you try to parse it as an int. If an Exception is thrown you know that's the name of the student. Than you can read the remaining lines and put them in an array.

But the reason is on a single line all the details are included, like name and scores. So you need to split them.