MP2: Hollywood

The Assignment

As always, start this MP by reading R-E-A-D-M-E-F-I-R-S-T.txt, in the MP you checked-out from subversion.

This graded assignment consists of three short programs:

• MovieSurvey
• MyScriptPrinter
• FindScriptLine

As the lead programmer for the Writers Guild of America,West (WGA) you have three programming tasks today:

• Create a survey to find out how people are watching movies (cinema,dvd,computer)
• Fix an existing program to extract the lines for each actor from a movie script
• Write a new program to search for and print an actor's lines.

What You Will Learn

1. Programming Skills:
   • Translate program descriptions into a complete Java program.
   • Find and fix runtime errors in existing code.
   • Use unit tests and manual testing as part of the development process.
   • Use Eclipse Development environment to create, run, test and commit programs.
   • Add comments and authorship
   • Reading source code for Pong Game
2. Java Skills:
   • Format text output using TextIO put and putln methods.
   • Read input from the keyboard using getln,getlnInt.
   • Create and use String, int, boolean, double variables.
   • Perform simple calculations using arithmetic operators.
   • Use String instance methods contains,trim,toLowercase.
   • Use integer arithmetic (division).
   • Use floating point arithmetic.

What You Should Already Know

• ch1.4 Fundamental Building Blocks of Programs
• ch2.1 The Basic Java Application
• ch2.2 Variables and the Primitive Types
• ch2.3 Strings Objects, Enums, and Subroutines
• ch2.4 Text Input and Output