20 Oct - Overview Homework #1 Group-Id rule Notes on Java text file input/output –Scanner class –Printf (like C)

Homework #1 to JSE/Home Work/ due noon, Friday, 21 Oct solution as (zipped) attachment to: Please send me: 4.jsp files that show the design of the original output table and each of the 3 modifications Extra credit: 3.jsp files that show the modification of the bad multiplication table to produce the 3 modifications

Group-ID Rule We frequently wish to process groups in a file sorted by group. Problem: Census file is sorted on a household number. Data for each household is to be accumulated. Detailed problem statement 1.System diagram 2.Data structures for: –input - censusFile.jsp –output - censusReport.jsp 3.Composite data model showing correspondences 4.Basic Program Structure - censusBasicStr.jsp 5.List and allocate operationsList and allocate operations 6.Produce elaborated program structure - censusElabStr.jsp 7.Generate structure text or code Structure text Java code

Group ID Rule Group-id Rule: “If a structure contains a component that is a group of records all having the same value of a (usually sorted) identifier, then there must be an operation that stores the value of the identifier. This operation should be allocated once per group, at the beginning of the group.” Design focuses on: –a static not a dynamic view of the problem; –data structures (objects), not on dynamic flow of control

Homework #2 (due 28 October) The Census household problem is modified as follows: (The course page has a sample file, censusFile.txt in the HW#2 folder. Test your program with this file.) The census text file has a city code in positions Accumulate the total number of males and females as well as the average household size in each city and produce the summary as before. Put sensible column headings in the report: (Household Id, # Males, # Females, etc.) Use Scanner and printf for reading and writing.

Using the Scanner utility class Scanner is in the util package, not the lang package so you need to include the line import.util.Scanner; at the top of the class. To create a Scanner object and connect it to a file you must create a File object based on the name of that file. This can be done with one line; Scanner s = new Scanner( new File(“census.txt")); Remember all programs are judged assuming the file is in the same directory as the compiled class file so do not put any path information on the file, just the file name. To use the file class you must include the line import.io.File; at the top of your program.

Using the Scanner utility class (cont.) Unfortunately instantiating a File object can result in in an IOException and this is a checked exception so you either have to use a try-catch block or declare that the method that contains the code that generates the checked exception throws an IOException. – In actual programming practice it would be much better to include a try-catch block, but for educational purposes and programming contest purposes it is much easier to simply declare that main throws an IOException. –Thus the declaration of the main method looks like this: public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException IOException must also be imported. This can either be done as a separate import statement: import java.io.IOException; or since the program now needs multiple classes from the io package we can use the wildcard import. Again, not the best programming practice, but for Olympiads, not a bad idea. import java.io.*;

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