Computer Science 252
Problem Solving with Java

Fall 2015, The College of Saint Rose

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Agenda

• Announcements
  • Lab 10: Final Project designs should all have responses by now, we are on to implementation phase
  • There will be no additional full-scale lab assignments, but there will be larger lecture and in-class assignments over these last 2 weeks
• Exam 3 recap
• Lecture 22 assignment recap
• Lab 12: ArrayList Practice recap
• Two-dimensional arrays

Lecture 23 Assignment

Due at the start of class, Thursday, December 3.

Please submit answers to these questions either as a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK) or by email to terescoj AT strose.edu by the start of class. Please use a clear subject line when submitting by email (e.g., CSC 252 Lecture 23 Assignment , Joe Student). We will discuss these questions at the start of class, so no late submissions are accepted.

Note: this is a somewhat longer lecture assignment than usual.

First, some review since so many seemed to have trouble with writing methods on the exam.

• Write a method that takes an ArrayList of objects that implement the Drawable2DInterface as its parameter (the parameter will have type ArrayList<Drawable2DInterface>) and returns the number of the objects in the array whose x-coordinates are less than 200. (5 points)
• Write a method that takes an int and an ArrayList of Integer as parameters and returns another ArrayList of Integer that includes only those values from the original ArrayList that are greater than the int parameter's value. (5 points)

The popular Sudoku puzzle game (for example, see here) consists of a board that has 9 rows and 9 columns of numbers ranging from 1-9. Suppose we are writing a class to store a Sudoku board. We will assume that filled-in entries contain a number 1 through 9, and blank entries are represented by 0.

• Write a declaration of the instance variable board that would store the board using a two-dimensional array of int. Show also the construction of the array. (3 points)
• Write a method checkRowValidity that takes a row number (let's use rows numbered 0-8 for simplicity) and checks that no two filled-in entries contain the same number within that row (this would be illegal in the game). It should return true if the row is legal, false if not. (6 points)
• Assume you have a similar method checkColValidity (no need to write it). Using your checkRowValidity and checkColValidity methods as building blocks, write a method checkRowsColsValidity that checks that all rows and columns are valid in the current board. (6 points)

Terminology

• two-dimensional arrays
• row major/column major order

Examples

• TicTacToe
• Breakout