urgent help needed - paper submission.

[dirtycash]

as part of my paper submission for coursework based on a software model of a hotel im being asked the following question -

Quote:

draw a diagram showing the state of the hotel after the constructor has been invoked
with a parameter value of 3. To show a state of the object you need to list its fields
and the value of each of those fields. For reference types, draw an arrow from the field to
the object it represents. You should also show the state of any Room and Occupier objects that have
been created.

im not exactly sure what i have to do here..
can someone explain it to me?

i especially dont understand the "showing the state of the hotel after the constructor has been invoked
with a parameter value of 3" bit of it.
many of the other questions are phrased this way, so if you could give m some advice on what to do id really appreciate it.

[hardwired]

To show a state of the object you need to list its fields and the value of each of those fields
The fields are the member variables of the class. You can override the toString method in the Hotel class to write out the state of these member variables.

Code:

    public String toString()
    {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        sb.append("HotelRx[arrayNewRoom:\n");
        for(int j = 0; j < arrayNewRoom.length; j++) {
            sb.append(arrayNewRoom[j] + "\n");
        }
        sb.append(", totalHotelIncome: " + totalHotelIncome +
                  ", freeRooms: " + freeRooms + "]");
        return sb.toString();
    }

Then in your main method:

Code:

        HotelRx hotel = new HotelRx(3);
        System.out.println("hotel = " + hotel);

[dirtycash]

but what would the diagram actually look like?