Exercise 6A (Midterm Simulation)

We want to realize a program to handle a document archive. For each document the following information is stored: name of the author, title of the document, and number of available copies.

Part 1. Write a class Document that implements the following methods:

• Document(String a, String t): constructor that, given author and title, constructs a document for which the number of available copies is 0;
• String toString(): that returns a string with all the information about the document;
• void createCopies(int n): that increments by n the number of available copies;
• void sellCopies(int n): that decrements by n the number of available copies; (if n is greater than the number of available copies, then such number should become 0);
• String getAuthor(): that returns the name of the author of the document;
• String getTitle(): that returns the title of the document;
• int getCopies(): that returns the number of available copies of the document.

An example program that uses class Document is given: TestDocument.java

Part 2. Write a class UseDocument, client of Document, that contains the following public static methods:

• static String authorMaxCopies(Document d1, Document d2): that, given two documents d1 and d2, returns the author of the document among d1 and d2 for which more copies are available. If for both documents the same number of copies are available, the method should return the concatenation of the names of the two authors, separated by " and ".
• static boolean bothAvailable(Document d1, Document d2, int count): that, given two documents d1 and d2, returns true if at least count copies of both documents are available and false otherwise.

An example program that uses class UseDocument is given: TestUseDocument.java

Solutions: Document.java, UseDocument.java

Exercise 6B (Conditional Statements)

Design and implement a class ExchangeMachine. The class should model an exchange cash dispenser that accepts Dollar bills and provides Euro bills applying pre-set exchange rates (dependent on the amount of money to be changed).

We're interested in the following features:

• a constructor should create an ExchangeMachine with an initial cash amount of 0 Euros;
• a get method should return the current cash amount in Euros stored in the machine;
• an add method should add a given amount of Euros to the current cash amount in the machine;
• an exchange method should accept an amount of dollars as a parameter and it should return the corresponding amount of Euros decreasing the current amount of cash.
  Note, however, that an error message should be printed out and 0 should be returned if the current cash amount is not enough.

The Euro/Dollar exchange rate is defined as the amount of Euros corresponding to one Dollar:
0.5 if the exchanged amount is less than 10 dollars,
0.9 if the exchanged amount is between 10 dollars and 100 dollars and
1.0 if the exchanged amount is more than 100 dollars.

Solution: ExchangeMachine.java