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Passing data back and forth between classes

 
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I need to understand how to pass data gathered in one .java file to another.java file.
For instance, I ask a user for their name and age. The I want to send the name and agae variable to another .java file to compute their birth day by subtracting their age from the current year. I then want to send the data bak to the first .java file to output the birth year.
I know I need to use instantiation, but I don't know where or how.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
 
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Hi Jeff,
You will understand better if you look at this tutorial :
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/
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Why do you need to use two different classes to solve this problem? Is this an assignment?
 
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This question is in reference to a assignment. My specific example is not part of the assignment but just the type of assignment.
I essentially as supposed to pass data from one .java file to another. THe variables have to be gathhered in the first file and computed in the second?
THanks.
 
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THe tutorial was good but not much help. Any other suggestions?
 
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I really don't know the answer, I just played around with this - using the constructors to pass info - and it seems to work OK, but I don't know if there are any pitfalls doing it this way
 
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