[Adventures in Learning Programming] Q: "we made a class called Earth to make a planet object called Earth but there's only one Earth we don't want multiple Earths how do we modify the class so the properties are useable without instantiating the class?"

idk man rename the class to something that isn't Earth????

that fixes everything

idk if that's the answer it wants tho

I will be very mad if that's the actual answer

What they're going for is making al the methods and properties are static

'cause if it ain't named Earth you can instantiate all the planet objects you want

but it's a really stupid example

yeah that's what I thought the answer was

it's just the question is worded in a stupid way

you would not design your class hierarchy in this way

Also you would probably make the constructor private to keep anyone from trying to instantiate it

I also had to spend 20 minutes trying to explain in text how to calculate the areas of pentagons, hexagons, and octagons and i am very mad about it

...how DO you? Is there a formula or do you just need to break down the shape into smaller shapes

if you have the length of one side there are formulas you can use

or you can indeed break them down into triangles

Octagon is 2(1 + sqrt(2))a^2 (where a = length of one side)

Hexagon is (3sqrt(2)) / 2 a^2

uhhh plurk formatting killed that

<- hexagon area

pentagon is "fuck you for trying to explain this in words" or

would probably be easier to just program a function to do it but no they want a written explanation

why are you doing this to me

click the pentagon picture it cuts off the last part