Time To Code: Task I to Task V
Discover how to code a hospital management system in Java by designing classes for doctors and patients, creating constructors, adding doctors by specialty, implementing getters, and printing detailed information. This lesson guides you through hands-on tasks to build structured, real-world programming skills for the AP Computer Science exam.
📌 Note: Before starting a task, copy the code of the previous tasks.
Task I: Design the basic structure
As previously discussed, a person in a hospital can be a doctor or a patient.
Our task is to create the classes and add the instance variables to represent these two types of people. Read the following specifications carefully.
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Every patient and doctor has a name.
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The age of every patient and doctor is recorded.
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A patient is given an
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A doctor can be a cardiologist, neurosurgeon, or dietitian.
💡 Hint: Think of a doctor as an interface and all the types of doctors as classes.
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The status of a doctor’s availability is also recorded. A doctor may or may not be available.
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The hospital has a name.
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The hospital holds the ...