title: Java generating random objects [Homework]
body: <p>Ok, I got the static error fixed.  Now I am just trying to find out why I'm getting the same entries for every object (ie same name, age, weight, etc).  Here is the code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>package classlab3b;
  
  import classlab3B.BodyMassIndex;
  import java.text.DecimalFormat;
  import java.util.Random;
  import java.util.Scanner;
  
  /**
   *
   * @author ccity
   */
  public class ClassLab3B {
  
      /**
       * @param args the command line arguments
       */
      public static void main(String[] args) {
          System.out.println("Please enter the number of people:");
          //asks user to input number of people
          int numberOfPeople;
          //declares integer variable for number of people
          Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
          //creates system input scanner
          numberOfPeople = input.nextInt();
          //captures user input for number of people
          BodyMassIndex[] a = new BodyMassIndex[numberOfPeople];
          //creates an array of BodyMassIndex the size of numberOfPeople
          String name = loadRandomNames(a);
          //loads object with random name
          int age = loadRandomAges(a, numberOfPeople);
          //loads object with random age
          double weight = loadRandomWeights(a);
          //loads object with random weight
          double height = loadRandomHeights(a);
          //loads object with random height
          createObjectsToFillArray(a, name, age, weight, height, numberOfPeople);
          //creates "x" objects to fill the array
          double BMI = BodyMassIndex.getBodyMassIndex();
          //gets BMI from getBodyMassIndex method in BodyMassIndex.java
          String status = BodyMassIndex.getStatus();
          //gets status from getStatus method in BodyMassIndex.java
          //double BMI = BodyMassIndex.bmix.getBodyMassIndex();
          //String status = BodyMassIndex.bmix.getStatus();
          printArray(a, name, age, weight, height, BMI, status);
          //prints array
  
  
          System.out.println(" ");
          System.out.println("Current Population");
          System.out.println(" ");
          System.out.println("Obese: " + BodyMassIndex.numberOfObese);
          System.out.println("Overweight: " + BodyMassIndex.numberOfOverweight);
          System.out.println("Normal: " + BodyMassIndex.numberOfNormal);
          System.out.println("Underweight: " + BodyMassIndex.numberOfUnderweight);
          System.out.println("================");
          System.out.println("Total: " + BodyMassIndex.totalNumberOfPeople);
  
  
      }
  
      public static void createObjectsToFillArray(BodyMassIndex[] data, String name, int age, double weight, double height, int numberOfPeople) {
          for (int i = 0; i &lt; numberOfPeople; i++) 
              data[i] = new BodyMassIndex(name, age, weight, height);
  
  
  
          //creates new BodyMassIndex objects with generated variables from methods within
      }
  
      public static String loadRandomNames(BodyMassIndex[] data) {
  
          String[] arrayOfFirstNames = {"Joe", "Donna", "Ronald", "Sarah", "David", "Courtney", "Irwin", "Linda", "Michael", "Cindy", "Tom", "Rebekah", "Todd", "Tracy", "Peter", "Nicole", "Marcelo", "Jennifer", "Rick", "Andrea", "Bruce", "Jaclyn", "Doug", "Shirley", "Steve", "Liz", "Waldo", "Theresa", "Scott", "Colby", "Beth", "Larry", "Emily", "Paul", "Kate", "Sam", "Dianne", "Dustin", "Alethea", "Wayne", "Kristina", "Christian", "Danny", "Breya", "Andrew", "Alison", "Tim", "Mary", "Chris", "Susie", "Jeremy", "Willy", "Jessica", "Marcus", "Kelly", "Kyle", "Stephanie", "Isaiah", "Hillary", "Eric", "Julia", "Donald", "Meredith", "Kevin", "Leslie", "Blake", "Angela", "Cliff", "Debbie", "Dylan", "Erin", "Alex", "Monica", "Nathan", "Wendy", "Josh", "Megan", "Adam", "Michelle", "Carey", "Ashley", "Brian", "Jason", "Melanie", "Jim", "Monica", "Jamie", "Rhonda", "Steven", "Perry", "Byron", "Laura", "Harry", "Brooke", "Drew", "Vicki", "Gary", "Anita", "Felipe", "Josie"};
          String[] arrayOfLastNames = {"Smith", "Johnson", "Williams", "Jones", "Brown", "Davis", "Miller", "Wilson", "Moore", "Taylor", "Washington", "Jefferson", "Lincoln", "Hamilton", "Jackson", "Grant", "Franklin", "McKinley", "Cleveland", "Madison", "Chase", "Nicholson", "Fauver", "Doe", "Southard", "Schmidt", "Hodson", "McDonald", "Stickley", "Miller", "Combs", "Bohus", "Krippner", "Amtower", "Banks", "Wallace", "Bannister", "Dehaven", "Yost", "Still", "Timbrook", "Peters", "Vaught", "Shellhammer", "Andrews", "Krippner", "McAlister", "Wright", "Kensinger", "McClellan", "Ganoe", "Shiley", "Layman", "Gearhart", "Yost", "Kushnir", "Bush", "Lowder", "Connolly", "Lowman", "Terveen", "Staton", "Settle", "Tinsman", "Nichols", "Baker", "Walters", "Dawe", "Renner", "Michaels", "Faircloth", "Looker", "Hastings", "Vaughan", "Anderson", "Zimmerman", "Deere", "Daher", "Lauck", "Stottlemyer", "Clinton", "Obama", "Reagan", "Montgomery", "Pugh", "Gavis", "Clark", "Bowers"};
  
          String first = get(arrayOfFirstNames);
          String last = get(arrayOfLastNames);
          String name = first + " " + last;
  
          return name;
      }
  
      public static String get(String[] array) {
          Random generator = new Random();
          int rnd = generator.nextInt(array.length);
          return array[rnd];
      }
  
      public static int loadRandomAges(BodyMassIndex[] data, int numberOfPeople) {
          double min = 13;
          double max = 99;
          int age = 0;
          for (int i = 0; i &lt; numberOfPeople; i++) 
              age = (int) randomInt(min, max);
  
  
          return age;
      }
  
      public static double randomInt(double min, double max) {
  
          double random = (double) ((max - min + 1) * Math.random() + min);
          return random;
  
      }
  
      public static double loadRandomWeights(BodyMassIndex[] data) {
          double min = 100;
          double max = 300;
          double weight = randomInt(min, max);
          for (int row = 0; row &lt; data.length; row++) {
          }
          return weight;
      }
  
      public static double loadRandomHeights(BodyMassIndex[] data) {
          double min = 55;
          double max = 80;
          double height = randomInt(min, max);
          for (int row = 0; row &lt; data.length; row++) {
          }
          return height;
      }
  
      public static void printArray(BodyMassIndex[] data, String name, int age, double weight, double height, double BMI, String status) {
          System.out.println("    Name           " + "Age    " + "Height    " + "Weight    " + "BMI    " + "Status");
          for (int i = 0; i &lt; data.length; i++) {
  
              DecimalFormat format = new DecimalFormat();
              format.setMinimumFractionDigits(2);
              format.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
  
  
              System.out.println(name + "      " + age + "      " + format.format(height) + "    " + format.format(weight) + format.format(BMI) + "   " + status);
          }
      }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I should be getting random entries but I'm only getting one. Here is the output:</p>
  
  <pre><code>run:
  Please enter the number of people:
  4
      Name           Age    Height    Weight    BMI    Status
  Courtney Anderson      81      79.64    155.0717.19   underweight
  Courtney Anderson      81      79.64    155.0717.19   underweight
  Courtney Anderson      81      79.64    155.0717.19   underweight
  Courtney Anderson      81      79.64    155.0717.19   underweight
  
  Current Population
  
  Obese: 0
  Overweight: 0
  Normal: 0
  Underweight: 1
  ================
  Total: 4
  </code></pre>