[Benito Fireslinger]

stick the student objects in an Object[] o = new Object[10]

and when you get them out of the array cast them back as Student objects by doing (Student)o[i];


you cant use Arrays.sort because you have not implemented Comparable so it cannot do natural order sorting, which is why you have to write your own (which needs a swap method).

Also never access variables directly always make get and set methods

To sort by quizes (make a method which does this)

public int[] getQuizes() {
     return q;
}


public String getName() {
      return name;
}


public Student sortQuizes(Student a) {

   int[] qTemp = a.getQuizes();
   
   for(int i=qTemp.length-1; i >= 1; i--) {
   
        for(int j = 1; j < i; j++) {
             if ( qTemp[j-1] < qtemp[j] )
                  swap(a, j-1, j);
        }
   }
}


protected static void swap(int[] array, int i, int j) {
         int temp;
      
         temp = array[i];
         array[i] = array[j];
         array[j] = temp;;
}//end swap

this will sort the quizes

for names

public Student[] sortNames(Student[] sTemp) {

   
   for(int i=sTemp.length-1; i >= 1; i--) {

        for(int j = 1; j < i; j++) {
             String n = sTemp[j-1].getName();
             String n2 = sTemp[j].getName();
       
             if ( n.compareTo(n2) > 0 )
                  swap(sTemp, j-1 , j);
        }
   }

}

gah something along these lines should work...