Comp152 Project 1

Moving to Java - and a review of comp151

Due: Sept 18th for the MW class or Sept 19th for the T/Th class

Summary:

I'm going to have you all do a project I give to mid semester comp 151 students to give you a chance to put all of the java that we've looked at the in last week or so and practice the sorts of things you did in comp151 in this new language.

Details:

You will build a "Fortune cookie" program. For those of you not familiar with it, once upon a time there was a command line program for power users which would give a random saying printed on the command line. Often bored graduate students would sit at a terminal and keep reading these way too many times.

You will write a small simplified version of the fortune program.

Before you begin your program:

• Create a text file in your project folder with 20 "quirky sayings"/fortunes (the only requirement is that they be appropriate for display in class),

In your program you will

• Create a list by reading those 20 fortunes from your file
• Ask the user how many fortunes he/she wants to see.
• store the value in a variable
• Inside of a loop (loop as many times as the user asked)
• select a random answer from your list of fortunes
• wait for the user to press the enter key (the easy way is to use the Scanner's nextLine method)

Note that it is quite possible that you will see some fortunes more than once while not seeing some at all.

Note: You must have the fortune choosing part of your project in a function which is not main (and not static.

Submission:

To submit this semester, add me as a collaborator following the directions in the linked file.