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Topic: Question/Problem w/ my Program....I'm I missing something here in my syntax??

 
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Hi, I'm new in these forums, and I'm studying Java this semester. I would like to program in Java in the future, I find it to be a very useful and powerful language . Learning Java is like trying to learn another language and sometimes I don't understand what is going on..??

Right now I'm writing a program in which I have to sort a lis of student by grades, I am getting some errors(the yellow ones) and I'm clueless of what I am missing here....Please, if somebody could take at look at my program/syntax I would really appreciate it....thank you This what I have so far:

//This is my program:


import java.util.ArrayList;
public class Student {

private String first, last;
private ArrayList<Double> gradeList = new ArrayList<Double>();

/**
*
* @param first Student first name
* @param last Student last name
*/
public class SortMethods {

public void selectionSort(int[] list, int last){
for (int end = last; end > 0; end--)
{
int what = list[0];
int where = 0;
for(int n = 1; n <= end; n++){
if(list[n] > what){
what = list[n];
where = n;
}
}
int temp = list[end];
list[end] = list[where];
list[where] = temp;
}
}

public void selectionSort(String[] list, int last){
for (int end = last; end > 0; end--)
{
String what = list[0];
int where = 0;
for(int n = 1; n <= end; n++){
if(list[n].compareTo(what) > 0){
what = list[n];
where = n;
}
}
String temp = list[end];
list[end] = list[where];
list[where] = temp;
}
}

public void selectionSort(Comparable[] list, int last){
for (int end = last; end > 0; end--)
{
Comparable what = list[0];
int where = 0;
for(int n = 1; n <= end; n++){
if(list[n].compareTo(what) > 0){
what = list[n];
where = n;
}
}
Comparable temp = list[end];
list[end] = list[where];
list[where] = temp;
}
}

}
public Student(String first, String last){
this.first = first;
this.last = last;
}

public String getFirst(){
return first;
}

public String getLast(){
return last;
}


public void addGrade(double grade){
gradeList.add(grade);
}

/**
*
* @return student's average, or -1 if no grades entered
*/
public double getAverage(){
if (gradeList.isEmpty()) return -1;
double sum = 0;
for (int n = 0; n < gradeList.size(); n++)
sum += gradeList.get(n);
return sum/gradeList.size();
}

public String toString(){
double average = getAverage();
if (average < 0) return first + " " + last + " : no grades entered";
else return first + " " + last + " : average = " + average;


}
}


//This below is my Tester and this also has an error that I have not been //able to figure out:

public class Tester {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Student[] list = new Student[5];
list[0] = new Student("George", "Washington");
list[1] = new Student("King", "George III");
list[2] = new Student("Albert", "Einstein");
list[3] = new Student("Julius", "Caesar");
list[4] = new Student("Donald", "Duck");

list[0].addGrade(88);
list[0].addGrade(93);
list[1].addGrade(75);
list[3].addGrade(98);
list[3].addGrade(99);
list[3].addGrade(96);
for(int n = 0; n < 500; n++)
list[4].addGrade(87);

SortMethods.selectionSort(list, 4);

for(int n = 0; n < 5; n++)
System.out.println(list[n]);
}

}
 
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I have already made some suggestions on the beginners' forum. Please don't ask the same question twice.
 
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