Time To Code: Task VI to Task IX
Explore coding tasks to manage hospital operations including booking patient appointments with specialist doctors, printing staff lists, updating doctor availability, and controlling patient access based on doctor status. Understand how to implement these features using Java functions to simulate real-world healthcare workflows.
Task VI: Book an appointment
Consider there is an online form for booking an appointment. It takes the name and age of a patient. Then, there are three options: cardiologist, neurosurgeon, and dietitian. The patient has to select one of them and submit the form.
Our task is to book an appointment for the patient. Read the following specifications carefully.
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Write a
voidfunction,bookAppointment, inHospitalclass. It takes the name, age, and a string representing the type of doctor (gathered from the online form). -
Booking an appointment means creating a patient in the hospital’s record. Remember: we gave each patient a code. Now it’s the time to set a value to it. The code given to a patient will be equal to his/her turn. In other words, the first patient to attend will be given the code: . The second patient to attend will be given the code: ...