First Programming Assignment

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Due:

Late programs will be assessed a 10 point per day penalty and will not be accepted more than 3 days late.

For this programming assignment you will write a program which will contain the following files, data and perform the following tasks.

Elements

a driver for class ManipulateData named ManipulateDataDriver
a class ManipulateData

Data

The input data will come from a file whose name the user will provide
The output data will come go to files whose names the user will provide
The input data will consist of words (Strings) and numbers (ints) which will be separated by delimiters
The delimiters are: .,?:;-%$ (period, comma, question mark, colon, semi-colon, hyphen, per cent sign and dollar sign).

Tasks

Your program must introduce itself to the user
Your program must get the input filename from the user
Your program must get the two output filenames from the user
Your program must store the words (Strings) in an array. Note that there will not be more than 100 words but there may be fewer.
Your program must store the number (ints) in another array. Note that there will not be more than 50 numbers but there may be fewer.
Your program must show the words in the order they were read
Your program must show the numbers in the order they were read
Your program must sort the array of words in ascending order
Your program must print the sorted array of words to a file
Your program must sort the array of number in descending order
Your program must print the sorted array of numbers to a file
Your program must remind the users where the data from and where it has been stored.
Your program must end with the standard message “This program has ended normally”.

Remember

Your program must have java docs for every method and class
Your program must have programmer information for each file
Your program must have adequate and appropriate internal comments
Your program must use appropriate exception handlers where appropriate
Your program must be appropriately modularized
Posted grade sheets from previous labs should provide additional style reminders

IMPORTANT:

You should write enough of a stub before lecture on Tuesday so that you can ask questions about things that are not clear in this assignment description.