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Programming 1A: (PROG5121)

The document discusses using parallel arrays to represent tabular data. It provides an example of using parallel arrays to store information from a dog show competition - one array stores the dog names, another stores the scores from round 1, and a third stores the scores from round 2. Code is shown to initialize the parallel arrays and print out the data in a formatted manner using a for loop. An exercise is provided to create a DogCompetition class that implements this parallel array example. Finally, a class activity is described to create an EmployeeInformation class that prints employee data from four parallel arrays using printf formatting.

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Programming 1A: (PROG5121)

The document discusses using parallel arrays to represent tabular data. It provides an example of using parallel arrays to store information from a dog show competition - one array stores the dog names, another stores the scores from round 1, and a third stores the scores from round 2. Code is shown to initialize the parallel arrays and print out the data in a formatted manner using a for loop. An exercise is provided to create a DogCompetition class that implements this parallel array example. Finally, a class activity is described to create an EmployeeInformation class that prints employee data from four parallel arrays using printf formatting.

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PROGRAMMING 1A

(PROG5121)
PARALLEL ARRAYS

BASED ON CHAPTER 8, FARRELL, J. 2019. JAVA PROGRAMMING.


9TH ED. 2019. COURSE TECHNOLOGY, CENGAGE LEARNING.
PARALLEL ARRAY REPRESENTATION
• Parallel arrays are several arrays with the same number of elements that work in tandem to
organize data.
• It is often necessary to represent data in a "table" form, as shown below, where the arrays represent
the data from a dog show.

The first array stores the


dog’s name.

The second array stores the


dog's score in round 1 of
the competition.

The third array stores the


dog's score in round 2 of
the competition.
PARALLEL ARRAY IMPLEMENTATION

• The table representation of the dog competition information can be implemented in Java as follows:

String[ ] dogname = {"Wally", "Skeeter", "Corky", "Jessie", "Sadie"};


int[ ] round1 = {18,22,12,17,15};
int[ ] round2 = {20,25,16,18,17};
• The dog competition information can then be printed out as follows:

for (int index = 0; index < dogname.length; index++) {


    System.out.print(dogname[index] + " ");
    System.out.print(round1[index] + " "); EXERCISE
1. Create a class called
    System.out.println(round2[index]); DogCompetition.
2. Code the main() method
}
with the code given here.
3. Run your program to see
the parallel array output.
CLASS ACTIVITY 9
• Write a Java class called EmployeeInformation to print the output shown below on the console.

• Your main() method must use four parallel arrays, each initialized with the values shown under the
four columns shown by the output below.

• Use the printf() method to format and print the array elements in each column as indicated.

printf() formatting requirements


ID - an integer element padded with 4
zeroes.
Name – a string element occupying
10 positions.
Department – a string element
occupying 10 positions.
Pay – a double element having 2
decimal places.

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