School assignment

Question

hey, i need help with my assignment. in this assignment i need to be able to use ArrayLists, and im having trouble with that. the plan is to load student information into a data base and save it in the arraylist. i think is done by using a temporary folder. heres what i have so far:
public static Student loadStudent (ArrayList student) {
            String lastName, firstName, street1, city1, state1, street2,
            city2, state2, homePhone, cellPhone;
            int id,zip1, zip2;
            double GradePointAve;
            System.out.println("\nEnter Last Name:");
            lastName = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println("\nEnter First Name:");
            firstName = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println("\nEnter Home 1:");
            System.out.println("\nEnter Street :");
            street1 = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println("\nEnter City:");
            city1 = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println ("\nEnter State:");
            state1 = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println("\nEnter Zip:");
            zip1 = MyInput.readInt();
            System.out.println("\nHome 2:");
            System.out.println("Enter Street:");
            street2 = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println("\nEnter City:");
            city2 = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println ("\nEnter State:");
            state2 = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println("\nEnter Zip:");
            zip2 = MyInput.readInt();
            System.out.println("\nEnter Home Phone:");
            homePhone = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println("\nEnter Cell Phone:");
            cellPhone = MyInput.readString();
            System.out.println("\nEnter GPA:");
            GradePointAve = MyInput.readDouble();
            System.out.println("\n");the user enters all that information, how should i take this information and save it in the array list. please help, thanks.

Answer 1

ok, i want to do somthing different now, i want to give each student an ID #. Also, i have a deleteStudent method that can delete a student. I want to give a student an ID. Thats the easy part, but, if a student gets deleted, i want there ID to never to be gone forever. For example: joe:ID 5, Greg:Id 6. Delete Greg, now no Id #6, and wen new students get loaded in, they do not go to number six, but go to the end of the list. i was thinkin about using
student.add()would this be the right direction, any help would be appreciated, thanx