CS 180 Problem Solving and Object Oriented Programming Fall 2010 Notes for Week 16: Dec 6-10, 2010 Aditya Mathur Department of Computer Science Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA This Week: 12/6 1.Exceptions 2.Recursion

Readings and Exercises for Week 16 Readings: Chapter: 7.4, 11.2, 11.3 Exercises: 7.6, 7.8, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3 ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 6/12/20102

Revised Project Schedule Additional office hours: Tuesday Dec 7: 2-4pm. LWSN 1177 Saturday Dec 11: 2-4pm. LWSN 1177 Special class: Sunday Dec 12, pm. LWSN 3102 ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 6/12/20103

Announcements Final exam: Monday Dec 13, :00pm. EE 129. Please attend the class on Wednesday Dec 8. Programming competition. Chief Guest Dr. Tim Korb. Cash prizes to winner and runner up teams. Thanks to Lockheed Martin. I will announce the format of the final exam. Please complete course evaluation. Thanks. ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 6/12/20104

Exceptions ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 An abnormal or unexpected condition during execution. When such a condition occurs, Java run time system does not always know how best to proceed and hence raises an exception. 6/12/2010 Some exceptions must be explicitly handled by the programmer. 5

Exception: Example 1 ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 public class ExceptionExampleDiv0{ public static void main(String [] args){ int y=1, z=0; int x=y/z; } 6/12/2010 java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero at ExceptionExampleDiv0.main(ExceptionExampleDiv0.java:8) 6

Exception: Example 2 ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 public class ExceptionExampleDiv0{ public static void main(String [] args){ int y=1, z=0; try{ int x=y/z; }catch(ArithmeticException e){ System.out.println(“Divide by zero:”+e); } } 6/12/2010 Divide by zero java.lang.ArithmeticException: / by zero 7 Try-catch not required

Exception: Unchecked (or Error) ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Arise during runtime due to some programming error. Not flagged by the compiler. Programmer may choose to handle these. Not subject to Catch requirement. Examples: ArithmeticException ArrayIndexOutOfBounds NullPOinterException 6/12/20108

Exception: Example 3 ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 public class ExceptionExampleFile{ public static void main(String [] args){ File f=new File("test.txt"); Scanner source=new Scanner(f); } 6/12/ error found: File: /Users/apm/www/courses/CS180Fall2010/Notes/Programs/Exc eptions/ExceptionExampleFile.java [line: 8] Error: /Users/apm/www/courses/CS180Fall2010/Notes/Programs/Exc eptions/Except 9

Exception: Example 4 ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 public class ExceptionExampleFile{ public static void main(String [] args){ File f=new File("test.txt"); try{ Scanner source=new Scanner(f); }catch(FileNotFoundException e){ System.out.println("File not found "+e); } 6/12/2010 File not found java.io.FileNotFoundExce ption: test.txt (No such file or directory) 10

Exception: Checked exceptions ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 These are subject to the catch requirement. 6/12/2010 Programmer is expected to write code to recover from these exceptions. Example: FileNotFoundException 11

Exception: try-catch ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 try{ code where exception might occur; }catch(exception object){ code to handle exception } 6/12/2010 catch-block try-block A catch-block serves as an exception handler. 12

Exception: try-catch: multiple catch blocks ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 try{ code where exception might occur; }catch(exception object){ code to handle exception; }catch(another exception object{ code to handle exception; } 6/12/2010 catch-block try-block Another catch- block 13

Exception: try-catch-finally ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 try{ Code where exception might occur; }catch(exception object){ code to handle exception; }finally{ code to handle exception; } 6/12/2010 catch-block try-block finally-block Finally-block always executes after the try-block. 14

Recursion ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 6/12/201015

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 What is recursion? 6/12/2010 We say that a method is recursive, when it calls itself. This is known as direct recursion. Recursion is a technique to code functions (or methods) in Java. Indirect recursion occurs when a method is called, before it completes, by another method. Recursion is complementary to iteration. While solving a problem, you may choose to use either. 16

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Example: Factorial 6/12/2010 !n= 1, if n=0 or 1 = 1*2*3*…*n; Definition: Iterative [n>=0] !n= 1, if n=0 or 1 = n*!(n-1), if n>1 Definition: Recursive [n>=0] 17 Basis Recursion

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Example: Factorial: Iterative method 6/12/2010 !n= 1, if n=0 or 1 = 1*2*3*…*n; Definition: Iterative [n>=0] public int factIter(int n){ if(n==0 || n==1) return 1; int prod=1; for (int i=2; i<=n; i++){ prod=prod*i; } return (prod); } !5=prod=1*2*3*4*5 18

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Example: Factorial: Recursive method 6/12/2010 public int factRecur(int n){ if(n==0 || n==1){ return 1; }else{ return (n*factRecur(n-1)); } !n= 1, if n=0 or 1 = n*!(n-1), if n>1 Definition: Recursive [n>=0] factRecur(5)=5*factRecur(4)*factRecur(3)*factRecur(2)*factRecur(1) =5*factRecur(4)*factRecur(3)*factRecur(2)*1 =5*factRecur(4)*factRecur(3)*2*1 =5*factRecur(4)*3*2*1 =5*4*3*2*1 19

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Recursion versus Iteration Iteration suffices for most problems that arise in practice. However, in some cases recursion allows compact and quick solution. An example follows. 6/12/201020

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Towers of Hanoi: The problem 6/12/ Given: Three towers A, B, and C. A contains n discs arranged from bottom to top as shown below. Problem: Find a sequence of moves such that at the end of these moves all discs are in C. No larger disc should ever be on top of a smaller disk. Only one disk can be moved at a time from one tower to another. Only the top disc can be moved from a tower. ABC

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Towers of Hanoi: Initial and final configurations 6/12/ ABC Initial configuration ABC Final configuration

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Towers of Hanoi: Iterative solution 6/12/ Try this! This will be difficult but certainly worth a try.

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Towers of Hanoi: Recursive solution 6/12/ What is a move? Only one disc can be moved from one tower to another. Hence we will write a move as: move x, y; x is the tower from where the top disc is moved and placed on top in tower y. For example: move A, B; will move the top disc on A to tower B

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Towers of Hanoi: Recursive solution: Visualization 6/12/ BCA Start 1 BCA 2 BCA 3 BCA 4

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Towers of Hanoi: Recursive program: Live 6/12/201026

©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 Towers of Hanoi: Challenge! 6/12/ How many moves are required to move n discs from tower A to tower C?

Week 16: December 6-10, 2010 Hope you enjoyed this week! Questions? Contact your recitation instructor. Make full use of our office hours. ©Aditya Mathur. CS 180. Fall Week 16 6/12/201028