Assignment #6

Your max grade for this assignment is 20, and you get points from the following parts:

10 pts for requirements [#1 on the assignment sheet]
10 pts for coding and documentation [#3 on the assignment sheet]

The Grading Base is going to be like "20 [10 10]" for a max grade on the Grades page for this assignment.

In addition to these, I would like to give you some other ways to do conversions. This type of conversion is called type casting.

For example,

int digitvalue = 48;
char charvalue;
charvalue = (char)digitvalue; // force the compiler for conversion
System.out.println(charvalue); // prints '0' instead of number 48.

// Similarly
charvalue = '9';
digitvalue = (int)charvalue; //
System.out.println(digitvalue); // prints integer 57 instead of '9'.

Notice that type casting does not convert an integer 48 to a string of 4 and 8, "48". It rather converts it to its ASCII code, char '0'.

For this assignment, another way would be the following:

int ASCII_value, integer_value;
ASCIIvalue = System.in.read();

integer_value = ASCII_value - 48;
System.out.println("Number you typed in:" + integer_value);

This way you get the same thing you do by doing the following:

if(ASCII_value == 48)
integer_value = 0;
else if(ASCII_value == 49)
integer_value = 1;
...

Ozgur Balsoy
balsoy@npac.syr.edu

Northeast Parallel Architectures Center