HW08: Palindromes! due Mon 20 Mar 10:00

Instructions

Do all of your work in the provided hw08 directory in your homework respository.

Your final program should:

• Accept the name of a file as a command-line parameter. The input file should be assumed to have a series of individual words with one word per line.
• If there is no command-line parameter (or more than one) the program should exit with an appropriate error message.
• For each word determine whether or not the word is a palindrome and display these statistics when complete: total number of words read, total number of palindromes, percentage of words that palindromes compose, the amount of time elapsed to read the file and determine the required values.

Additional requirements:

• The timing of code should make use of a CodeTimer class. You can write your own or use the one that appears in various examples.

• The reading of the data file should use a BufferedReader rather than Scanner.

• Your solution should attempt an object-oriented design. NOTE: My design used a single class in addition to main() and I passed the data file name to the constructor as a parameter. I kept the method from the in-lab assignment as a static method in my class.

• The code that houses main() should be in a file named Driver.java.

• As always use JavaDoc notation for commenting classes and methods and follow Java programming conventions.

For fun you might try to find a large text file that contains a bunch of words (one per line) and see what the statistics look like.

As you work, document your code and commit at appropriate times. When you complete your work be sure to push all committed changes to bitbucket.

Sample Output

+--------------------------------------------+
Input File     : ../data/smallwords.txt
Words Processed: 13
# Palindromes  : 4
% Palindromes  : 30.769%
Time Elapsed   : 0.000
+--------------------------------------------+

NOTE: When grading I will test your program using a different, much larger data file. For this reason you should not use an array to store all the words.

Grading

Your program should be completely working and should follow all of the programming conventions named in class and explained in http://josephus.hsutx.edu/classes/all/javaconventions/ (including the use of comments that conform to the JavaDoc guidelines).

The instructor will grade your work based on what you have pushed to the hosted homework repository you have shared. For all assignments the program is due before the beginning of class on the due date. Repositories that show a commit time after that time will be graded as late.