CS 211: ArrayList
Chris Kauffman
Week 10-1
Front Matter
Goals Today
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Feedback
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ArrayList
Lab 10: Exercises
P4: Panic! Due Sunday 3/29
at 11:59pm
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Questions?
Midterm Feedback
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Have a look at results
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Posted to piazza later today
Overall Messages
1. Lab Task/Quiz time constraints are hard
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Future Task/Quiz will be shorter
Need "better" prep exercises
2. More overview of exercises in lab
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Will instruct lab leaders
3. Folks don’t collaborate on lab exercise
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Why not?
4. Awesome Stuff
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Folks are starting projects reasonably early
BJP is best textbook we’ve found for CS 211 so far
P3 Target difficulty was right on
Automatic/Manual Grading System
Schedule: 1 week behind posted
3/30
4/6
4/13
4/20
4/27
5/4
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Makeups
ArrayList and Generics
Recursion
Review and Exam 2
Linear and Binary Search
Comparable/Comparator and Collections
Stacks/Queues, Review
ArrayList Crash Course
Weird new syntax with angle braces.
ArrayList<String> as = new ArrayList<String>();
as.add("Hi");
as.add("Bye");
System.out.println(as.get(1));
Have a look at UseArrayList.java
ArrayList Goodies
JavaDoc for ArrayList
a.get(5)
a.set(5, x)
a.add(x)
a.add(i,x)
int n = a.size();
a.indexOf(x)
access
assignment
append, grow if needed
insert, shift/grow as needed
how many elements
linear search
Big win in ArrayList over standard arrays: they grow as needed
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How could that work? You should want to know. . .
Preview: Collections
ArrayList is a collection
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Part of Java’s collections framework
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Implements Collection<E>
JavaDoc for Collection interface
All Collections. . .
JavaDoc for Collections class
A lot of static methods that do stuff to classes implementing
Collection
sort
binarySeach
max/min
swap
addAll
These all look weird, mention a Comparator a lot
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We’ll get to that later
Warning: No Primitives Allowed
Can’t do
ArrayList<int> a = ...
No primitives allowed; will discuss this shortly
Instead do
ArrayList<Integer> a = ...
Boxed and Unboxed
| Unboxed
| Boxed
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| Primitive | Reference |
|-----------+-----------|
| int
| Integer
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| double
| Double
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| char
| Character |
| float
| Float
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| boolean
| Boolean
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Compiler is smart about converting between these two
Exercise: Naive Median Calculation
Median Age
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File stores name/age pairs
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Compute the median of the
ages
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Median is the middle score
of the sorted ages
Advice
I Use ArrayList to make input
easy
I Use a Collections method to
make sorting easy
I Use appropriate ArrayList
methods to access elements
I Use Integer rather than int
names-ages.txt
Demo Run
Dexter
Debra
Angelos
Vincent
Maria
James
Brian
Harrison
Rita
Cody
Lila
> javac ComputeMedian.
> java ComputeMedian n
Sorted ages:
0: 1
1: 9
2: 28
3: 29
4: 30
5: 32
6: 35
7: 37
8: 39
9: 39
10: 43
median: 32
35
32
43
30
39
39
37
1
29
9
28