CSC212 Homework 5 2014

--D. Thiebaut (talk) 23:24, 22 October 2014 (EDT)

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This assignment is due Friday (note the different day) Oct. 31st, at 11:55 p.m.

Problem #1

• Write a recursive Java program called Hw5_1.java that implements a modified recursive binary search that, instead of returning the index where the key was found, returns an ArrayList of all the indexes where the key is located. By returning, I mean either return with a return statement, or an ArrayList that is passed as a parameter, or an ArrayList that is a member variable of the class.
• You must use this function to create a sorted array of dimension N:

        private static int[] initSortedArray( int N ) {
                if ( N<10 ) N = 10;
                int[] array = new int[N];
                array[0] = 3;
                for ( int i=1; i<N; i++ ) 
                        array[ i ] = array[i-1] + (i*11)%7;
               
                // duplicate some keys 
                for ( int i=1; i<4; i++ )
                        array[ N/3 + i] = array[N/3];
                
                return array;
        }

This way the indexes for a given key will be known to the testing program in Moodle. For verification, this is the array created by the function for N = 20:

3 7 8 13 15 21 24 24 24 24 34 36 42 45 45 49 50 55 57 63 

• If the array contains [3 7 8 13 15 21 24 24 24 24 34 36 42 45 45 49 50 55 57 63], and we are searching for key 24, then your program will output

6
7
8
9

• You cannot use an iterative method that is not recursive.
• Your program should get N, the dimension of the array, and the key from the command line. Here's the code you should use:

     public static void main(String[] args) {
		if ( args.length == 0 ) {
			System.out.println( "Syntax: javac  Hw5_1  N  key" );
			return;
		}
		int N = Integer.parseInt( args[0] );
		int key = Integer.parseInt( args[1] );
    }

Note

• If you are using Eclipse (which I hope you are), then passing parameters on the command line is a bit tricky, though totally possible. Here's how you do would do it. First click on the little black down arrow next to the Green Circle/White Triangle icon (Run icon) you click to run your programs.

• Select your program in the list
• Click on the Arguments tab, and enter N and the key in the window ("20 24" in this case).
• Run your program. From then on, whenever you press the run-icon it will use these two numbers for N and key. If you want to change them, go through the same above steps again.

• Your output should be sorted. To sort an ArrayList of integers, you can use the Collections library, as illustrated below:

import java.util.Collections;

...

     ArrayList<Integer> indexes = new ArrayList<Integers>();

     // add some ints to the array
     ...

     // sort the ArrayList
     Collections.sort(indexes);

• Submit your program on Moodle, in the Homework 5, Problem 1 section.

Problem #2

• Modify the N-Queens problem seen in Lab #9 and make it compute the total number of different solutions existing for an NxN board. The program as we have seen in the lab stops when it finds a solution, but there might be many different possible ways of putting N queens on the NxN board. Make your program compute the total number of such solutions.
• Call your program Hw5_2.java.
• The output of your program should just be an integer number representing the number of solutions.
• Your program will get N from the command line, as in:

 java Hw5_2  20

which will compute the total number of different ways we can organize 20 queens on a 20x20 chessboard.