Trouble with arrays Help

[mrjaeyun]

The instruction for my assignment is the following

Create a class to maintain a personal budget for a year. The name of this class is Budget. The data your class will need, at a minimum, are:

an array of categories (like Tuition, Food, Clothes, etc). You should have at least six categories. You can use your own expenses as a guide.

an array for EACH category, storing the total monthly expenses for that category (think – how many items would be in each array?)

Create a constructor for the budget. You should have at least two constuctors – one if you have no expenses to record yet, and one if you are adding your first expense. Remember, each expense has two “fields” - the category name and the amount.

Create a method to add an expense to the budget. This method should know in which month the expense occurred, so figure out how many, and what data type, parameters are needed.

Create a method to print a report of the budget. Each category's current yearly total should appear on a separate line, and the final line would show the total expenses so far spent this year. For instance, a sample output might be:

> Expenses as of Nov 4, 2011:

> Tuition: $3200

> Food: $2600

> Clothes: $600

> Books: $450

> Total expenses: $6850

This is the coding i have so far:

public class Budget{

///////////////fields////////////////
private String expenseName;
int[] expenseAmount = {1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000};
int[] monthNumber = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12};




/////////constructors///////////////
public Budget() {}

public Budget(String name) {this.expenseName = name;}

public Budget(String name, int num)
{
this.expenseName = name;
this.expenseAmount = num;
this.monthNumber = num;
}


/////////////methods///////////
public String getexpenseName() {return expenseName;}

public int getexpenseAmount() {return expenseAmount;}

public int getmonthNumber() {return monthNumber;}

public void setExpenseName(String name)
{
this.expenseName = name;
}

public boolean setexpenseAmount(int num)
{
if (this.expenseAmount == 0)
{this.expenseAmount = num;
return true;
}
else
return false;
}}


I keep getting errors saying Type mismatch: cannot convert from int to int[]
someone help

[CHLim]

First of all, there are actually alot of errors in your code. You should probably go over the basics.

That aside, in your constructor :

/////////constructors///////////////
public Budget() {}

public Budget(String name) {this.expenseName = name;}

public Budget(String name, int num)
{
this.expenseName = name;
this.expenseAmount = num;
this.monthNumber = num;
}

this.expenseAmounts and this.monthNumber is expecting an array object. Thats why its keeps giving you the error, cannot convert int to int[]. If you want to pass in or take out a value
from the array you should define where in the array you want to put it in ie expenseAmounts[i] where [i] is the arrangement of the value in the array starting from 0.

[mrjaeyun]

public class Budget{

///////////////fields////////////////
private String expenseName;
int expenseAmount[] = {1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000};
int monthNumber[] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12};




/////////constructors///////////////
public Budget() {}

public Budget(String name) {this.expenseName = name;}

public Budget(String name, int num)
{
this.expenseName = name;
this.expenseAmount[1] = num;
this.monthNumber[3] = num;
}


/////////////methods///////////
public String getexpenseName() {return expenseName;}

public int getexpenseAmount() {return expenseAmount[1];}

public int getmonthNumber() {return monthNumber[1];}

public void setExpenseName(String name)
{
this.expenseName = name;
}

public boolean setexpenseAmount(int num)
{
if (this.expenseAmount[0] == 0)
{this.expenseAmount[1] = num;
return true;
}
else
return false;
}}


I put the [] brackets where it was needed and put temporary numbers within them for compiling sakes. Could you direct on how to go about doing the assignment?

[Junky]

Sounds like you are just guessing.

If you want an explanation of the assignment then you should talk to your teacher. If you have a specific question about your code then ask it and we can provide a specific answer. "I don't know what to do" is not specific and very difficult for us to answer.