My Solution to the Removing Assets Challenge

[OkayGreat]

main.m

//
//  main.m
//  BMITime
//
//  Created by Adam G. on 5/24/14.
//
//

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import "BNREmployee.h"
#import "BNRAsset.h"

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{

    @autoreleasepool {
        
        // Create an array of BNREmployee objects
        NSMutableArray *employeesArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
        
        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            
            // Create an instance of BNREmployee
            BNREmployee *adam = [[BNREmployee alloc]init];
            
            
            //Assign a first name to each Employee object
            switch (i) {
                case 0:
                    adam.firstName = @"Adam";
                    break;
                case 1:
                    adam.firstName = @"Melony";
                    break;
                case 2:
                    adam.firstName = @"Bryan";
                    break;
                case 3:
                    adam.firstName = @"Gina";
                    break;
                case 4:
                    adam.firstName = @"Natali";
                    break;
                case 5:
                    adam.firstName = @"Snow";
                    break;
                case 6:
                    adam.firstName = @"Aaron";
                    break;
                case 7:
                    adam.firstName = @"Doug";
                    break;
                case 8:
                    adam.firstName = @"Belinda";
                    break;
                case 9:
                    adam.firstName = @"Helene";
                    break;
                    
                default:
                    break;
            }
            
            // Give the instance variables interesting values
            adam.weightInKilos = 90 + i;
            adam.heightInMeters = 1.8 - i/10.0;
            adam.employeeId = i;
            
            // Put each Adam object into the employees NSMutableArray
            [employeesArray addObject:adam];
         
        }
        
        // create 10 assets
        for (int i; i < 10; i++) {
            // Create an assets
        BNRAsset *asset = [[BNRAsset alloc] init];
            
            
            // Get a random number between 0 and 9 inclusive
            NSUInteger randomIndex = random() % [employeesArray count];
            
            // Find that employee
            BNREmployee *randomEmployee = [employeesArray objectAtIndex:randomIndex];
     
            // Created a more meaningful label which includes the Employee's
            
            NSString *currentLabel = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@'s Laptop. Laptop ID %d", randomEmployee.firstName, i];
            asset.label = currentLabel;
            asset.resaleValue = 350 + i * 17;

            
            // Assign the asset to the employee
            [randomEmployee addAsset:asset];
        }
        
        NSLog(@"Employees: %@", employeesArray);
       
        
        // Remove 10 assets
        for (int i = 0; i < 15; i++ ) {
            // Get a random number between 0 and 9
            NSUInteger randomIndex2 = random() % [employeesArray count];
            
            // Get a random employee from the array
            BNREmployee *randomEmployee2 = [employeesArray objectAtIndex:randomIndex2];
            
            
            // Remove the assets from the employee
            [randomEmployee2 removeAsset];
        }
 
        
    }
    return 0;
}

BNREmployee.m

//
//  BNREmployee.m
//  BMITime
//
//  Created by Adam G on 5/24/14.
//
//

#import "BNREmployee.h"
#import "BNRAsset.h"

@implementation BNREmployee

// Accessors for assets properties
- (void)setAssets:(NSArray *)a
{
    _assets = [a mutableCopy];
}

- (NSArray *)assets
{
    return [_assets copy];
}

- (void)addAsset:(BNRAsset *)a
{
    // Is assets nil?
    if (!_assets) {
        
        // Create the array
        _assets = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
    }
    [_assets addObject:a];
}

// Remove Asset Method
- (void)removeAsset
{
    
    // Count how many _assets the person owns.
    // Assign value to i then go through the switch/case statement
    // The dealloc method will fire once the BNRAsset object is removed from the array _assets array.
    // The BNRAsset dealloc method displays a NSLog message like
    // "deallocating BNRAsset <Adam's Laptop. Laptop ID 3: $401>"
    
    for (NSUInteger i = [_assets count]; i > 0; i--) {
        
    switch (i) {
        case 1:
            [_assets removeObjectAtIndex:i - 1];
            break;
        case 2:
            [_assets removeObjectAtIndex:i - 1];
            break;
        case 3:
            [_assets removeObjectAtIndex:i - 1];
            
        default:
            [_assets removeObjectAtIndex:i - 1];
            break;
        
     
}
        
    }
}

- (unsigned int)valueOfAssets;
{
    // Sum up the resale value of the assets
    unsigned int sum = 0;
    
    for (BNRAsset *a in _assets) {
        sum += [a resaleValue];
    }
    return sum;
}

- (double)yearsOfEmployement
{
    // Do I have a non-nil hireDate?
    if (self.hireDate) {
        // NSTimeIntervval is the same as double
        NSDate *now = [NSDate date];
        NSTimeInterval secs = [now timeIntervalSinceDate:self.hireDate];
        return secs / 31557600.0; // Seconds per year
    }
    else {
        return 0;
    }
}

- (float)bodyMassIndex
{
    // return 19.0;
    
    float normalBMI = [super bodyMassIndex];
    NSLog(@"NormalBMI is: %.2f", normalBMI);
    return normalBMI * 0.9;
}

- (NSString *)description
{
  
    return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"<Employee ID: %d Name: %@ owns $%d in assets>",
            self.employeeId, self.firstName, [self valueOfAssets]];
}

- (void)dealloc
{
NSLog(@"\n\rdeallocating BNREmployee %@", self);
}



@end

[OkayGreat]

After posting my Remove Assets method I just noticed a lot of unnecessary redundancy there with the switch case statement haha. You could just simplify it down to one line like this [_assets removeObjectAtIndex:i - 1];