Homework 3
Write a Java class named "Book" that contains bibliographic data. The class
should include the following instance variables:
- title (a string): the title of the book
- author (a string): the author's last name (or the first author's last
name if there is more than one author)
- publisher (a string): the publisher
- year (an integer): the copyright year
Your class should include the following methods:
- a default constructor (empty strings for the string fields and 0 for the
integer field)
- an initialization constructor (title, author, publisher, and year in
that order)
- a copy constructor
- a setter for each attribute (setTitle, setAuthor, setPublisher, and
setYear)
- a getter for each attribute (getTitle, getAuthor, getPublisher, and
getYear)
- toString
The toString method returns a string formatted as a semicolon-delimited list.
For example, our textbook would have the following string representation:
Programming and Problem Solving with Java; Dale; Jones and Bartlett;
2008
Your class file should include appropriate documentation comments.
Submitting Your Work
The
project folder should be named "Hmwk03". Send me
your "Book.java" file as an attachment to an email message whose subject is
"Hmwk03".
