NealSavant / FoodTruckProject

Food Truck Project

Week 3 Homework for Skill Distillery

Overview

I was tasked with creating a java application that simulates a food truck rating service in the command line. The user is prompted to input information for up to 5 food trucks:

:Name

:Type of food

:Rating

After taking the information, a main menu is presented where there are four options:

1. List trucks

2. Get the average rating

3. Get information on the highest rated truck

4. Quit program

Topics/Technologies Used

Static fields for unique ID's

Java

While loops , For loops , if statements

Constructors

Object classes

Object arrays

StringBuilder

Lessons Learned

scanner.nextInt(); puts the scanner cursor right after the integer and does not go to the next line. If you try to assign String name = scanner.nextLine(); after your nextInt(); it will skip the String assignment. solution is to put an empty scanner.nextLine() after your nextInt() to get the scanner pointer on a new line to accept a user input.

Static field variables can be used for unique ID allocation. At a later point I may be able to implement hash codes and random increments to create unpredictable ID's for object constructions.

Methods should not be larger than a screen. (generally)

Never write code twice. Put it into a method.

-Neal Savant