Hello everyone, I’ve been unavailable this week due to cut backs at my job (which means I’m working longer hours to make up for the shortage of employees). I’ll get started on this and we should be finished by tommorow. Anyone care to start posting code? Some else can do comments and I’ll see if i can throw together a gui. Are you all interested in making this program with a GUI?

Response to Ryan

I agree 100%–why do the work if the debugger will do it for you?

1.Let the debugger do the work for you. There are lots of free debuggers and compilers available. You can find one that helps you debug the program. With the Eclipse IDE, their debugger automatically locates the faulty code and provides suggestions to fix your code. With the NetBeans IDE, it will Identify the faulty code for you, but not provide automatic solutions. It provides suggestions to fix your code, but Eclipse will allow you to add code to help you resolve the situation.

2.Get to know your debuggers and what they can do. Debugging is a powerful tool and each one does the job a little differently; even though they all do the same job. If you don’t know how to use it, you won’t get to far in programming.

3.During debugging, after the debugger has identified the faulty code, you may not understand why the section is faulty. It’s best to read a few lines before or ahead to help you identify why the faulty code is not operation properly. If line 15 is faulty, maybe the method in line 5 is causing it.

4. Another important thing when debugging is rewriting the faulty code. If you don’t rewrite

2.Creating GUI applications are not as hard as they appear to be; especially when you use the IDE to do most of the work for you.

3.There’s always a short and quick way to perform an operation. I’m referring to math.min to locate the smallest of multiple numbers. You could write out a few lines of code, using the greater, equal or less than signs; to determine the smallest of a group of numbers. But Math.Min, does it all for you.

4.You have to use multiple resources when learning a programming language. The book is great, but it does not have 100 percent clean and clear logical code. I read through the whole thing and the way the book was composed, they assume you know what they are talking about. It’s a little difficult for the beginner programmer to learn from this text. It’s more of a reference manual and you have to have multiple resources to learn from. Another great place to find help is through google.

5. You have to find a compiler you are comfortable with, or become comfortable with everything the team you are working with, is using. It’s great to master one program, but it does not get you anywhere. If you master multiple tools, you’ll be able to adapt to more situations a lot easier. I use Netbeans to cracnk out my applications and I use eclipse to help me learn through the process; because Eclipse automatically provides solutions and shows you through your code.

Response to Ryan

It is great that you take the extra step to go with thr GUI version. While it takes more time the added effort is well worth the skill level.

Response to Ryan

You will be our go to GUI guy.

The following zip file is the complete package, download, unzip and tweak how ever you want it!

it’s simple, create gui application.
add 2 buttons,
4 textboxes,
within the program code make the method:

public void Calculation(){

float number1, number2, number3;
number1 = Float.parseFloat(jTextField1.getText());
number2 = Float.parseFloat(jTextField2.getText());
number3 = Float.parseFloat(jTextField3.getText());

float answer = Math.min( number1, Math.min(number2, number3));

jTextField4.setText(String.valueOf(answer));

}

——–+++++and ++++——

public void Clear(){
//clears all text boxes
jTextField1.setText(”");
jTextField2.setText(”");
jTextField3.setText(”");
jTextField4.setText(”");
}

Here’s calculate button code:
private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {

Calculation();
}

and here’s the clear button code:
private void jButton2ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
Clear();
}

You’re done, you have a running application, you should add labels to explain what does what though.

OK, the following 3 text files contain the codes for you to look at:

ryanmin0f3numbersaboutbox.txt

ryanmin0f3numbersapp.txt

ryanmin0f3numbersview.txt

Hello, one again, I went with the GUI version:

Here’s the heart of the code that does it all:

public void Calculation(){

float number1, number2, number3;
number1 = Float.parseFloat(jTextField1.getText());
number2 = Float.parseFloat(jTextField2.getText());
number3 = Float.parseFloat(jTextField3.getText());

float answer = Math.min( number1, Math.min(number2, number3));

jTextField4.setText(String.valueOf(answer));

}

public void Clear(){
//clears all text boxes
jTextField1.setText(”");
jTextField2.setText(”");
jTextField3.setText(”");
jTextField4.setText(”");
}

and the buttons that calls these methods.
private void jButton2ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
Clear();
}

private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {

Calculation();
}

private void jMenuItem1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
Calculation();
}

private void jMenuItem2ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
Clear();
}

I made the two methods, and within the calculate and clear buttons/menu items (under my options pane), I called these methods. I decided to do this because it makes no sense to write the code multiple times in each button. I wrote the code once and called it four times.

here’s my screen shot: