Arrays or ArrayLists

[mwenchong]

I have great interest in java and I am teaching myself the language. I want to know if I can create a class the will hold an array, add elements to the array or arraylist. This class should be called in the main method.

[Fubarable]

Why not try it and see what happens? But in general if your collection will have a variable sized number of members, then use an ArrayList, and if a fixed number, then an array. Much luck.

[mwenchong]

I tried something like this for the main method:
code:
import java.util.*;
public class ArrayListClassDemo {
public static void main(String args[]) {

ArrayListClass yes = new ArrayListClass();

yes.add("C");
yes.add("A");

}
}


and for the class i did this. I know this is totally wrong. Please guide me.

import java.util.*;
public class ArrayListClass {

public ArrayListClass() {

}

public void makeArray() {
// create an array list
ArrayList al = new ArrayList();
System.out.println("Initial size of al: " + al.size());

}

}

[Fubarable]

and for the class i did this. I know this is totally wrong. Please guide me.

I can't really read your code without code tags, and I ask you to please edit your post above and use code tags. This has been requested of you before, in fact just yesterday. To see how to do this, please read the first link in my signature links below.