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copied!<blockquote> <p>Edit again: I think I get it now. All I need to do then is use the current class colon the class I want to be able to access? Person : Student, or person : teacher Is that correct?</p> </blockquote> <p>I'm currently trying to learn the ins and outs of object oriented programming. Currently I have a new object that's something like the following:</p> <pre><code>class student { int grade; //0 - 100 as opposed to the characters A, B, C, etc. string teacher; //For the teacher of the class the student is in. } class teacher { int courseAverage; string name; //teacher.name would correspond to the teacher in the student class. } class Program { student Jim; Jim = new student(); teacher John; John = new teacher(); } static void grades() { Jim.grade = 100; } static void teacher() { Jim.teacher = "John Smith"; } static void average() { int average; //For the sake of simplicity I'll leave the average at an int. average = (Jim.grade + Sue.grade + Sally.grade + Robert.grade) / 4; /*A loop would be set before the average variable to ensure that only students of John would be counted in this.*/ } static void teacheraverage() { John.courseAverage = average;//from the average method. } </code></pre> <blockquote> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>What I would like to do is modify the information from another class. However, I would like to modify the information from the Jim student in a method from within the program class. A method to compute the average of grades for the students who have the given teacher. </p> <p>Also, the only reason I use static in these is because that is the only way I have managed to access variables across methods. I tried using static methods to use the methods across classes with no success. Is there another way to do this?</p> </blockquote> <p>I would like to use the Jim student in multiple methods. One that will set Jim's grade, and another that will set the teacher. I would like to use different methods in this case so that I can learn how it is done. </p> <p>Okay, it looks like my understanding wasn't correct. I am going to try the methods within the class approach. </p>

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