Question

I have created a class called aptSchedule which, like its name suggests, keeps track of appointments in the form of a schedule. I would like to create a method that looks for and finds the first open appointment. In order to create this method I must first figure out a way to find all appointments. I figure that I will need to create a public variable of sorts, but I am not very familiar with Java and I was curious where and how should I create such a variable? Am I explaining myself well enough?

Thank you,
Evan

Answer 1

You will have to store all the appointments in some sort of collection, let’s go with a simple List<Appointment> (assuming each appointment is stored in a(n objec of type) Appointment). Then you can have your class like this:

public class aptScheduler
{
  List<Appointment> appts = new LinkedList<Appointment>();

  public aptScheduler()
  {
    // constructor
  }

  public Appointment findAppointment()
  {
    // search for appointment in appts, and return the first suitable one
  }
}