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Code Challenge 5.3 - Stock Class

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Objective

Your task is to design and implement a Stock class and write a program that tests the class. This challenge focuses on object-oriented programming concepts such as constructors, methods, and fields, as well as applying arithmetic operations.

Skills to Practice

• Defining and implementing classes.
• Creating constructors.
• Defining and using methods.
• Working with object-oriented design principles.

Challenge Tasks

1. Create a console project named Challenge 5-3.
2. Draw the Class Diagram:
   • Draw the class diagram for the Student class, including fields, constructors, and methods.
3. Class Implementation:
   • Define a class named Stock with the following specifications:
     • A string data field named Symbol for the stock’s symbol.
     • A string data field named Name for the stock’s name.
     • A double data field named CurrentPrice that stores the stock’s current price.
     • A double data field named PreviousClosingPrice that stores the stock price for the previous day.
     • A constructor that initializes the fields with specified parameters: the symbol, name, current price, and previous closing price.
     • A method named GetChangePercent() that calculates and returns the percentage change from PreviousClosingPrice to CurrentPrice. The formula to calculate the change percentage is:

4. Test Program:
   • Write a sample program in Program.cs that creates a stock object with:
     • Symbol: MSFT
     • Name: Microsoft
     • Current Price: 34.35
     • Previous closing price: 34.5
   • Displays the price-change percentage using the GetChangePercent method.

^* Use the naming convention that matches your programming language/preference.