Class Student

Class Student (Fig. 4.4) has features similar to those of class Account (discussed in Chapter 3). Class Student stores a student’s name and average and provides methods for manipulating these values. The class contains:

• instance variable name of type String (line 5) to store a Student’s name

• instance variable average of type double (line 6) to store a Student’s average in a course

• a constructor (lines 9–18) that initializes the name and average—in Section 5.9, you’ll learn how to express lines 15–16 and 37–38 more concisely with logical operators that can test multiple conditions

• methods setName and getName (lines 21–30) to set and get the Student’s name

• methods setAverage and getAverage (lines 33–46) to set and get ...

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