The object-oriented approach to a many-to-many relationship

I’m battling at the moment in trying to understand how to approach this issue in an object-oriented way.

With a many-to-many relationship such as Students-Subjects, where each student gets a mark for a certain subject, assuming the following:

I want to be able to display all the marks for a given student. I want to display all the marks from different students for a given subject I want to be able to change any student’s mark for a given subject.

I have trouble with this last one, I can’t seem to think of a way to relate the classes to each other so that the marks will remain congruent when changed…

Here’s what I was thinking about doing in pseudocode. Pretend we have 3 students each involved in 3 subjects (9 marks total):

Make a class for Student (String name, int studNumber)

Make a class for Subject (String name, int subNumber)

Make a class for Result(int percentageScore String grade(calculated based on
percentageScore)) 

Then have an array of arrays of Result objects, eg. [1][2] in the array will 
give the score for the student with studNumber 2 in the subject with subNumber 1.   

I feel like this isn’t object-oriented? There should be some kind of acknoledgement of the relationship within the class design for subject and students. If that is indeed right, could anyone point me in the right direction? How does one do this in an object-oriented way?

Thanks a lot.

Answer

Why go with such complex class structures. You can have a simple Student class.

  class Student{

  String stuName;
  long rollNo;

  public Student(String stuName, long rollNo){
   this.stuName=stuName;
   this.rollNo=rollNo;
   }
   .
   .
   .

  }

And a Subject class. Each subject has certain students enrolled and the marks that each student has scored in that subject. Which can be represented as:-

class Subject{

String subName;
HashMap<Integer,Student> Result;

public Subject(String subName){
this.subName=subName;
Result=new HashMap<Integer,Student>();
}

//add methods to add students,modify marks, etc

public void addStudent(String name,long roll, int marks){


Result.put(marks,new Student(name,roll));

}

public int giveMarksForSubject(long roll){

//iterate Results , and check for student objects to match roll no. return key of matching student
.
.
.
}

  .
  .

}

For the part where you mentioned you want to change marks for students for certain subject. You can search the Subject object by String name in your Main method’s class and then change Student’s marks according to name/rollNo. You can provide methods in Subject class for implementing such functionality.