Computer Science 202
Introduction to Programming

Fall 2012, The College of Saint Rose

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For this short lab assignment, your job is to write a program to read in the words from a file, and for all words longer than 4 characters, to print them out along with their lengths.

You will develop and submit only a Java program for this lab.

You may work alone or with a partner on this lab.

Program Requirements

Your program should do the following:

• Name your file LongWords.java.
• Read in the name of an input file from the keyboard.
• Open that file (with a Scanner) and read it, word by word.
• For each word read from the file, if its length is 4 characters or less, ignore it. If it's length is greater than 4, print out the word and its length (to the terminal).

Bonus Opportunity

For 3 points of bonus, use a method to check the length and (for words longer than 4 characters) print out the word and its length.

Style and Documentation Reminders

Before you submit your programs, make sure they conform to our guidelines for style and documentation.

In particular, you should have a comment at the top of each class that describes your program and has your name (and that of your partner if you are working with someone), the course number and section (02 for 11:15, E1 for 4:10). You should have comments throughout your programs describing your variables and any non-obvious Java statements or groups of statements.

All identifiers (class names and variable names) should be meaningful and conform to Java's naming conventions.

Your code should be nicely formatted, with new lines after any { or }, and indented as done in class examples.

Submitting Your Work

Before 11:59 PM, Tuesday, November 13, 2012, submit your Java program to Blackboard for grading. Please upload your Java source file (LongWords.java - upload the one with the .java file extension, not the .class, .ctxt, package.bluej or README files).

Grading

This assignment is worth 20 points, which are distributed as follows: