Exercise 7A

Design and realize a class Experiment that stores data obtained from a temperature measurement. The data values are delivered as a string of space-separated integers (at least one) and are stored in an array of integers.
The class Experiment should export the following functionalities:

• creation of an instance of an experiment, given a string with data values;
• computation of the number of stored values;
• computation of the sum of all stored values;
• computation of the average of the stored values (use a double!);
• computation of the smallest value;
• computation of the largest value.

Exercise 7B

Extend the class Experiment with the following functionalities:

• verification that two experiments are equal - that is, they hold the same values in the same order;
• verification that two experiments are similar - that is, they hold the same values, regardless the of order and regardless of how often each value appears;
• computing the merge two experiments - that is, a new experiment that contains the values from both experiments;
• checking whether a given value is present in an experiment's data set
• counting how often a given value is present in an experiment's data set
• finding the first value in an experiment's data set that appears at least twice;
• plotting an experiment's data set using text output: each text line should contain a number of stars (*) proportional to each data value up to a maximum of 80; in case of negative values just a single minus sign (-) should be printed;

Finally, implement a method toString that returns a string representation of the experiment's data values.

Solution for 7A and 7B

Exercise 7C

Write a client class for the class Experiment that does the following:

1. create two experiments from data inserted by the user;
2. print the number of values, the sum as well as the average and minimum values of the two experiments;
3. check whether the two experiments are equal and print a message accordingly;
4. if they're not equal, check whether they are similar and print a message accordingly;
5. create an experiment that contains the data of both experiments;
6. have the user input an integer value and print out how often it is present in the newly merged experiment;
7. check if there are repeated values in the merged experiment;
8. have the merged experiment plotted;

1. repeatedly calls JOptionPane.showInputDialog() (or the nextLine() or next() method of the Scanner class) until the user presses Cancel,
2. builds a space-separated string from the so-inserted integer values,
3. creates an Experiment object by passing the string to the constructor of Experiment, and
4. returns such an object.

Solution