Computer Science for Transfers
Lab 3 - Files and Exceptions

You may copy the jar file for this lab by issuing the command below from your CS account (on a Linux machine):

cp ~csx/public_html/lab3.jar .

Overview

The primary purpose of this lab is to provide you with the opportunity to work with files, practice working with exceptions, and implement a dynamically allocated Queue class.

Note that you will not get any credit if your queue is implemented in an array, or if you use any any class in the Java Collections Framework.

Ask Dr. Tiger

• Tip of the week

Pre-lab

1. Review your class notes for the preceding week.
2. Read the documentation for the following classes java.io.FileReader, java.io.BufferedReader, java.io.FileWriter java.io.BufferedWriter and java.io.PrintWriter.java.
3. Complete the files exercises found by clicking here.
4. You can also find additional information on I/O here in the Java tutorial.

Objectives

1. Become familiar with methods in dynamic data allocation.
2. Review command line arguments.
3. Learn how to open files and process any exceptions that may be thrown.
4. Learn how to read data from a file.

Activities

1. Implement a Queue interface.
2. Searching for all occurrences of a string in a file.
3. Giving the user an output option.

Grading

In-lab participation	3 points
Activity 1	9 points
Activity 2	8 points
Activity 3	10 points
Total	30 points

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