We're all back together this week; everyone will do the same thing. This assignment is due on Friday, January 24.

(a) In Chapter 3 of the Goodrich and Tamassia book, do these problems:

• R-3.8. Unless you have already completed this by hand, use a spreadsheet to help with the calculations; Excel is available on the machines in the lab. Every computer scientist should have some spreadsheet experience, so take this opportunity.



• C-3.1. A sentence or two is all that's required here; numerical examples or pictures are also welcome.



• P-3.1. Treat the linear-log scale as extra credit. Also for some extra credit, plot your results as a chart in Excel (which does allow log scales if you poke around the various options).

(b) Look at Alex Thornton's Project #1 from ICS 22, available on the web at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~thornton/ics22/LabManual/Money/ .

(b.1) Code the problem as specified. The coding here should be pretty easy, but pay particular attention to the discussion about testing and to designing and carrying out a thorough test plan.

(b.2) Change the program to handle dollars and cents rather than just integer dollars. As the write-up points out, this is tricky because floating-point numbers (floats and doubles in Java) aren't exact (think of 1/3 or 2/7) and that inexactness can be compounded in repeated calculations.

The right way to handle this is to treat each balance as an integer number of cents. You then have two problems: How to print the quantities with a decimal point and two digits to the right, and how to let the user specify dollar-and-cents quantities.

For the output, you'll want to write a method called toCurrencyString that takes an integer and returns a string including a decimal point, so that toCurrencyString(12345) would return "123.45". The algorithm for this isn't hard if you use both division and the mod (remainder) operator (%--so that 12345 % 100 is 45) to extract the dollars, dimes and cents.

For the input, you may do it the easy but clumsy way: Prompt the user separately for the dollars and for the cents, combining them in your program. For a little extra credit, parse the input string containing a decimal point.

Redraft (and re-apply) your test plan to include tests of dollars-and-cents amounts (thinking carefully about what those amounts can look like).

(b.3) For some extra credit, try one or more of these:

• Allow each person to have a collection of accounts (creating an AccountCollection class that you could implement as an array, or even as a linked list). You'd probably want to give each account a number and think about what interface changes you'd need.



• Have (at least) two subclasses of accounts, Checking and Savings; each class could have a different associated interest rate (that applies to every account of that class, not one for each instance), and allow each person's account collection to include any combination of accounts. (A clever thing to do would be to use a static field in the Account class so that every new account, of whatever type, gets a unique account number.)



• The "Additional Challenges" listed in Alex Thornton's write-up.

What to turn in:

For part (a), paste all your answers into a single Word document and submit it via Checkmate. (If you'd prefer another format besides Word, let us know and we'll see about alternate arrangements. Likewise, if you already completed this part before reading about the Excel requirement, you may turn in a paper version in class on Tuesday.)

For part (b), turn in via Checkmate a Word document containing your test plan and a Java file for each class from part (b.2). As indicated by Checkmate, turn in the main, required part separately from any enhanced, extra credit version from (b.3).

Written by David G. Kay, Winter 2003 to build on "Money (That's What I Want)," an ICS 22 lab by Alex Thornton.

Saturday, January 18, 2003 -- 11:01 AM