Review Exercises (Set B1)

  1. Find the return type and number of local variables for the following method

    public double f(int n, int p) {
       double sumOfPowers = Math.pow(n,p) + Math.pow(p,n);
       return sumOfPowers;
    }
    
    double; there is only one local variable (sumOfPowers)
  2. What does the following print?

    public class Main {
       public static void main(String[] args) {
           boolean[] flags = new boolean[6];
           int[] nums = new int[6];
           for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
              if (i < 4) {
                 nums[i] = i;
                 flags[i] = (i % 3 == 1);
              }
              System.out.println(nums[i] + " " + flags[i]);
           }
       }
    }
    
    0 false
    1 true
    2 false
    3 false
    0 false
    0 false
    
  3. What does the following code print?

    public class Utility {
       public static double[] normalize(double[] v) {
          double mag = 0;
          for (int i = 0; i < v.length; i++) {
             mag += v[i]*v[i];
          }
          mag = Math.sqrt(mag);
          double[] normalizedV = new double[v.length];
          for (int i = 0; i < v.length; i++) {
             normalizedV[i] = v[i] / mag;
          }
          return normalizedV;      
       }
       
       public static void main(String[] args) {
          double[] v = {4,0,3};
          double[] u = normalize(v);
          System.out.println("(" + u[0] + "," + u[1] + "," + u[2] + ")");
       }
    }
    
    (0.8,0.0,0.6)
  4. What does the following code print?

    public class Main {
       public static void main(String[] args) {
          int[] a = {2,3,6,8,5,9,1,7};
          int p = a[0];
          for (int i=0; i < a.length; i++) {
             if (p < a[i]) {
                p = a[i];
             }
          }
          System.out.println(p);
       }
    }
    
    9
  5. Suppose one uses a binary search to determine if 4 is present in the following array {1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 19, 23}. Give the values taken on by the high, low, and mid variables, in the order they occur in the code below, as well as the return value for the method.

    public static int binarySearch(int[] list, int key) {  
       int low = 0;
       int high = list.length - 1;
    
       while (high >= low) { 
          int mid = (low + high) / 2;  
          if (key < list[mid])          
             high = mid - 1;                                   
          else if (key > list[mid])    
             low = mid + 1;                               
          else
             return mid;               
       }
    
       return -1 - low;  
    }
    
    lo  mid  hi
     0   5   11
     3   2    4
         3    2
    
    returns -4
    
  6. The selection sort orders list or array of numbers (or some other comparable type) by performing a number of "swaps". Given the list: 6,1,9,7,5,4,3,2 -- put the list in order using a selection sort. Show the state of the list after each "swap", from the first swap made to the last, in that order.

  7. Presuming minimums are swapped to the beginning, you should get the following:
    6 1 9 7 5 4 3 2
    1 6 9 7 5 4 3 2
    1 2 9 7 5 4 3 6
    1 2 3 7 5 4 9 6
    1 2 3 4 5 7 9 6
    1 2 3 4 5 7 9 6
    1 2 3 4 5 6 9 7
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9
    
  8. The insertion sort orders a list or array of numbers (or some other comparable type) by performing a number of "insertions". Given the list: 6,1,9,7,5,4,3,2 -- put the list in order using an insertion sort. Show the state of the list after each "insertion", from the first insertion made to the last, in that order.

    6 1 9 7 5 4 3 2
    1 6 9 7 5 4 3 2
    1 6 9 7 5 4 3 2
    1 6 7 9 5 4 3 2
    1 5 6 7 9 4 3 2
    1 4 5 6 7 9 3 2
    1 3 4 5 6 7 9 2
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9
    
  9. What does the following code print? Also, the array a below is called a __________, given that the arrays it contains are of different lengths? (Fill in the blank)

    public class Main {
       public static void main(String[] args) {
          int[][] a = {{1,2,3,4},{5,6},{7,8,9}};
          int[] b = {10,11,12,13};
          int[] c = {14,15,16,17};
          System.out.println(a.length + " " + a[0].length + " " + a[1].length);
          b = c;
          b[0] = 8;
          for (int i = 0; i < b.length; i++) {
             System.out.print(c[i] + " ");
          }
       }
    }
    
    3 4 2
    8 15 16 17
    
    The array a is called a "ragged array"
  10. When two methods share the same name but have different method signatures one has an example of ________ (Fill in the blank)

    "Overloading" a method
  11. What does the following code print?

    public class CursingAgain {
        
        public static int bang(int n) {
            return (n == 1 ? 1 : n * bang(n-1));
        }
    
        public static void main(String[] args) {
            System.out.println(bang(5));
        }
    }
    
    120
  12. What does the following code print?

    public class Main {
       public static void main(String[] args) {
          char[][] myChars = {{'a','b','c'},
                          {'d','e','f'},
                          {'g','h','i'}};
          for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
             for (int j = i; j >=0; j--) {
                System.out.print(myChars[i][j]);
             }
             System.out.println();
          }
       }
    }
    
    a
    ed
    ihg
    
  13. What does the following code print?

    public class Main {
        
       public static void main(String[] args) {
        
          int[][] z = new int[3][3];
          
          int[] r1 = {4,9,3};
          int[] r2 = {6,5};
          int[] r3 = {1,7,8};
          int[][] x = {r1,r2,r3};
        
          for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {  
             z[i][0] = x[i][1];
          }
           
          for (int i = 0; i < 3; i++) {
             for (int j = 0; j < x[i].length; j++) {
                System.out.print(x[i][j] + z[i][j] + " ");
             }
             System.out.println();
          }
       }
    }
    
    13 9 3
    11 5
    8 7 8
    
  14. What does the following code print?

    public class MethodFun {
        
       public static void fourInTheGolfSense(int[] x, int[] y, int[] z, int d) {
           
           for (int i=0; i < x.length; i++) {
               z[i] = x[i] + y[i];
           }
           
           int[] t = x;
           x = y;
           y = t;
           
           d = 0;
           
           for (int i=0; i < x.length; i++) {
               System.out.print(x[i]);
           }
       }
       
       public static void main(String[] args) {
        
          int[] a = {1,2,3};
          int[] b = {4,5,6};
          int[] c = {7,8,9};
          int d = 1;
          
          fourInTheGolfSense(a,b,c,d);
          
          for (int i=0; i < a.length; i++) {
               System.out.print(a[i]);
          }
          for (int i=0; i < c.length; i++) {
               System.out.print(c[i]);
          }
          System.out.print(d);
       }
    }
    
    4561235791
  15. Explain the error in the below code.

    public boolean bueno(double p) {
        double b = p;
        for (int y = 0; y < 7; y++) {
            p *= 1.10;
            boolean nuff = (b > 2*p); 
        }
        return nuff;
    }
    
    The variable nuff is out of scope
  16. Complete the following method so that it will return the number of occurrences of the given integer x in the given integer array a.

    public static int countOccurrences(int x, int[] a) {
    
       ////////////////////
       // YOUR CODE HERE //
       ////////////////////
    
    }
    
    public static void countOccurrences(int x, int[] a) {
        int count = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < a.length; i++) {
            if (a[i] == x) {
                count++;
            }
        }
        return count;
    }