600.108 Intro Programming Lab Week 6
PROBLEM STATEMENT ------------------------------------------------------------
Write a program which will convert a plain text file to a randomly
formatted html file. The random formats will consist of centering (or
not), font colors and heading styles. Most html formatting
instructions, called tags, follow a general pattern of being enclosed
in angle brackets to begin, as in , and using a slash to end,
as in . In "proper" html, when multiple formats are applied
to a line, their tags should be properly nested.
Centering a line is accomplished by putting the html tag
before the line starts, and following the line with
to end
the centering format. Colors can be expressed as a six character
string preceded by a #. Every two characters in the string are the
same, the first pair representing the amount of Red, second for Green
and third is Blue (RGB values). Possible values for the characters
are the digits 0, 3, 6, 9 and the letters C and F. In order to set
the font of some text to a particular color in an html document, use
before the text and after the text.
Lastly, there are 6 levels of headings in html. Each one is
designated with a tag pair , where the # is a digit from 1
to 6.
Your program should prompt the user for the name of an input plain
text file and then create an output file whose name is the same as the
input file name, with ".html" added to the end. In this output file,
every line of the original file should be repeated, with a random
color and heading style formatting it, either centered or not. Using
this problem description as the sample input file, a sample output
file is posted at
. In order to
view the html itself (what your program must create), choose the view
file source menu option of your web browser after displaying this
output file.
Phase I: Write a method that takes a string, chooses a random number
between 1 and 6 and given this number, #, returns string For
example, if the parameter value is "hello" and the number chosen is 4,
the method returns "hello
". Write a main method that calls
this method with 3 different strings and displays the result on the
screen for testing.
>>> Switch driver/nagivator roles <<<
Phase II: Write a method that takes a string, and randomly decides
whether to return the original string without any changes, or to
return string instead. Add some code to main to test
this out.
>>> Switch driver/nagivator roles <<<
Phase III: Write a method that takes a string, and chooses three
characters from the set {0,3,6,9,C,F} randomly. It then transforms
string into string where x, y, and z were
the three randomly chosen characters, returning the result. Add some
code to main to test this method.
>>> Switch driver/nagivator roles <<<
Phase IV: Write a program that prompts a user for a filename, then
reads the file, transforms each line in all the above-described ways,
then writes it to another file, with the filename of
"inputfilename"+".html", where inputfilename was the given input file
name.
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MAKE SURE YOU DELETE YOUR FILES OFF THE LAB COMPUTER WHEN DONE!!!
FAILURE TO DO SO IS AN ETHICS VIOLATION!
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