Program #1: Adlibs

Prof. Reed, CS 107, Fall '08
Due Monday 9/8 at 12:00 noon

Write a program in Java to create an adlib story.( This is similar to "Madlibs" that you may have seen before.) Running your program will look something like what is shown below, where user input is shown in bold:

Author: Dale Reed 
Program: #1, Adlibs 
TA: Englebert Humberdink, T 4-5 
Aug 27, 2008


Supply some words that will be inserted into a story. 

Please enter 4 nouns (a person, place, or thing, e.g. computer), one per line: 
dog
arrow
volleyball
dagger
Please enter 4 adjectives (describes a noun, e.g. enormous), one per line: 
diminutive
obese
dark
shallow
Please enter 5 verbs (an action, e.g. run), one per line: 
kick
throw
jump
dance
shout
Please enter 1 adverb (describes a verb, e.g. quickly), one per line: 
suddenly
Please enter 3 numerical values (e.g. 3, or 21), one per line: 
5
99
107
 



     This semester the most diminutive thing happened in class. 
when I walked in there were 5 students who began to kick
and throw. 
     "Where's the Prof?" I asked suddenly.
     "He slipped on a dog and began to jump", they said.
"Paramedics used a arrow to carry him out.  He gave us a obese 
dark assignment due in 99 days.  We have to write a 
shallow program to dance a volleyball by a dagger and then 
shout it to turn it in." 
     That's when I switched majors.


Exiting Program...

You need to know the following concepts in order to write this program:

Notes:

1. Make sure you have read chapters 1 & 2 before starting this assignment. You may also need sections of chapter 3.
2. Make sure you read the syllabus regarding the grading criteria. Particularly on the first program, students tend to lose points for not documenting adequately and for not choosing meaningful variable names.
3. See this sample program, which gives you a good starting point, as well as illustrates various concepts you need for this program.
4. For your program you can create a different "story," as long as you have at least as many words and different parts of speech as there is in the above example.
5. Note that the user prompts asks for 3 numbers, but only 2 of the numbers are used. You must use the 2 smallest numbers that the user provides. If you write your own story, you must also include this in your story.
6. I suggest you work on the program one piece at a time. Don't try to write the whole thing, type the whole thing in, then debug the whole thing. Write just a bit, compile and test, and continue like that.
7. Remember to include your TA's NAME and your LAB DAY in the documentation header of your programs AS WELL AS in the output that appears on the screen.
8. Do not be deceived. This is considered to be an easy program, compared to what is to come in the course.
9. Transfer your program into your CS account. Note that your CS account information is posted outside the elevators on the 9th floor in SEO, and also posted on the wall in the CS lab at 2260 SEL.
10. You may not use additional methods (that's what groupings of lines of code are called) for this program. All your code must be in one method, as shown in the sample program.
11. Turnin your program electronically using the "turnin" command from your CS account. You should have already done this once in your first lab. If you missed this for some reason, please look at the web site "Lab & TA Info" page, which links to the content done in the first lab. The turnin command should be used as follows:

turnin -c cs107 -p program1 Adlibs.java

where the file containing your solution is called Adlibs.java .    To practice using the turnin command you can use the project named "junk" (rather than program1 in the example above.). Please do not name your program anything besides Adlibs.java

If you want to verify that your project was turned in, look in the turnin directory for a file with your userid. For instance for this project, from your CS account you would type:


ls -l ~i107/submit/program1

Note that you can execute turnin as many times as you would like, up until the program deadline when turnin will be disabled for this project. Each time you execute turnin for a project, you overwrite what you had turned in previously for that project. For this first program only, and only if you do not yet have an cs account, you may email your solution to your TA. Note that emailing your solution rather than using turnin may significantly delay the grading of your assignment.

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