Food Truck Project

Description

Users will input and rate a list of food trucks, then view the average rating and the highest-rated truck.

Maximum input is 5 food trucks, along with their food type and the rating. If the user inputs "quit" for the food truck name (or inputs 5 total), the program advances to the secondary menu.

The secondary menu consists of:

1: Display all food trucks
2: Display average rating
3: Display winning food truck
Q: Quit

Lessons Learned

• When using IDE features to create new methods, it defaults to public static methods. I reverted to include logic code within the switch cases rather than using method calls to fulfill the requirement of only one static method (main).
• Using an infinite loop for(;;) helped me loop through the user input section of the do-while loop.
• Consuming an extra new line character with sc.nextLine() after catching invalid input from sc.nextDouble() prevented the next scanner call from advancing without appropriate user input.
• Adding a delimiter .useDelimiter("\n") to the Scanner initialization helped account for String input that included spaces.
• Getters and setters provide access to class instance variables while keeping them private.
• As a security precaution, the getTrucks() method provides a copy of the FoodTruck[] array versus sending the static member, in order to display the food trucks.

Technologies Used

• JavaSE-1.8
• Eclipse IDE

Author

• Andy Cary (@acary)