CH6 – Overloading

  1. Create a new class named Overloading.
  2. Create two methods named calculateArea, where one method takes four doubles and the other takes one.
  3. Implement one of the methods as determining the area of a polynomial while the other as the area of a circle. Also create PI with the value of 3.14 as a constant.
public class Overloading{
  public static double PI = 3.14;
  public static double calculateArea(double a, double b, double c, double d){
   return a * b * c * d;
  }
  public static double calculateArea(double r){
    return PI*r*r;
  }
}
  1. Add a main method that calls both methods.
public static void main(String[] args){
  Overloading myOverloading = new Overloading();
  double areaOne = myOverloading.calculateArea(22.33,33.22,12.12,41.78);
  double areaTwo = myOverloading.calculateArea(16.55);
  System.out.println("area: " + areaOne + " area: " + areaTwo);
}
  1. Compile and run the program.
$ javac Overloading.java
$ java Overloading
area: 375629.2530513599 area: 860.0538500000001

The complete class appears as follows.

public class Overloading{
  public static double PI = 3.14;
  public static double calculateArea(double a, double b, double c, double d){
   return a * b * c * d;
  }
  public static double calculateArea(double r){
    return PI*r*r;
  }
  public static void main(String[] args){
    double areaOne = Overloading.calculateArea(22.33,33.22,12.12,41.78);
    double areaTwo = Overloading.calculateArea(16.55);
    System.out.println("area: " + areaOne + " area: " + areaTwo);
  }
}