[Luke1988]

hey. i am trying to derive a student class from my a person class. i cant seem to get past 2 compile errors. these are:

personStudent.java:6: cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor Person(java.lang.String,int)
location: class Person
super(theName, theAge);
^



personStudent.java:6: cannot find symbol
symbol : constructor Person(java.lang.String,int)
location: class Person
super(theName, theAge);
^



the code i have written for the two programs is below...any help would be much appreciated.

thanks **Luke**

PERSON CLASS

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public class Person
{
protected String name;
protected int age;

public void setName (String theName)
{
name = theName;
}

public void setAge (int theAge)
{
age = theAge;
}

public String getName ()
{
return name;
}

public int getAge ()
{
return age;
}

public void displayDetails ()
{
System.out.println("Name is : " + name );
System.out.println("Age is : " + age );
}
}
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STUDENT_PERSON CLASS

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public class personStudent extends Person
{
private int studentNo ;
public personStudent (String theName, int theAge, int num)
{
super(theName, theAge);
studentNo = num;
}
public int getStudentNo()
{
return studentNo;
}

public int setStudentNo()
{
studentNo = num;
}

public void displayDetails ()
{
super.displayDetails();
System.out.println("Student Number Is: " + studentNo);
}
}
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TEST CLASS

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public class TestPerson
{
public static void main(String []args)
{
System.out.println("Testing Person class");
System.out.println("---------------------------------------");

// instantiating the class
// constructing an object of type Person
Person Ryan = new Person();


Person Luke = new Person();
Luke.setName("Luke");
Luke.setAge(19);
Luke.setStudentNo(776);

// using the set methods
Ryan.setName ("Ryan") ;
Ryan.setAge (53) ;

Ryan.displayDetails () ;
System.out.println();
Luke.displayDetails();

}
}
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[bdlt]

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[jpshortstuff]

As far as i can see, the problem is here:

super(theName, theAge);

You are calling this from the personStudent class, which extends Person.
Calling super would call the constructor for Person, passing those parameters in.
The problem is, you haven't set a constructor for Person with those parameters.

So, if you added this constructor to your Person class:

public Person(String theName, theAge)
{
	name = theName;
	age = theAge;
}

Then calling ther super constructor like you did should work.

Or, instead of calling your super constructor, you called use you setter methods of the person class:

public personStudent (String theName, int theAge, int num)
{
setName(theName);
setAge(theAge);

studentNo = num;
}

By using this as your constructor in the PersonStudent class.

Hope that solves your problem, any questions just ask

jpshortstuff

[Luke1988]

thanks for your help jpshortstuff

[jpshortstuff]

not a problem, glad i could be of assistance

hope its all running smoothly now