Assignment 1
Assignment 1
Assignment 1
Note that the due date applies to the last commit timestamp into the main branch of
your repository.
DO NOT change the file structure of the project. Modifying the structure could cause
points to be lost.
When importing the project into an IDE use the calculator folder as root of the source
files.
Overview
The purpose of this assignment is to practice object oriented design to create two
programs:
1. An object that evaluates mathematical expressions
2. A GUI around the artifact from (1)
Submission
You are required to submit a documentation PDF which is to be stored in the
documentation folder in your repository.
Source code should be submitted to the GitHub repository as well in the correct folders.
PDFS ONLY
Organization and appearance of this document is critical. Please use spelling and
grammar checkers - your ability to communicate about software and technology is
almost as important as your ability to write software!
Requirements
You will be provided with an almost complete version of the Evaluator class
(Evaluator.java). You should program the utility classes it uses - Operand and
Operator - and then follow the suggestions in the code to complete the
implementation of the Evaluator class. The Evaluator implements a single public
method, eval, that takes a single String parameter that represents an infix
mathematical expression, parses and evaluates the expression, and returns the integer
result. An example expression is 2 + 3 * 4, which would be evaluated to 14.
The expressions are composed of integer operands and operators drawn from the set +,
-, *, /, ^, (, and ). These operators have the following precedence (# and ! will be
discussed shortly, and they are extra credit).
Operator Priority
+, - 1
*, / 2
^ 3
The algorithm that is partially implemented in eval processes the tokens in the
expression string using two Stacks; one for operators and one for operands (algorithm
reproduced here from
http://csis.pace.edu/~murthy/ProgrammingProblems/16_Evaluation_of_infix_expression
s):
* If an operand token is scanned, an Operand object is created from the token, and
pushed to the operand Stack
* If an operator token is scanned, and the operator Stack is empty, then an Operator
object is created from the token, and pushed to the operator Stack
* If an operator token is scanned, and the operator Stack is not empty, and the
operator’s precedence is greater than the precedence of the Operator at the top of
the Stack, then and Operator object is created from the token, and pushed to the
operator Stack
* If the token is (, and Operator object is created from the token, and pushed to the
operator Stack
* If the token is ), the process Operators until the corresponding ( is encountered.
Pop the ( Operator.
* If none of the above cases apply, process an Operator.
When all tokens are read, process Operators until the operator Stack is empty.
Requirement 1: Implement the above algorithm within the Evaluator class (this
implementation need not be submitted, but it is strongly recommended that you
begin with this version).
Requirement 2: Test this implementation with expressions that test all possible
cases (you may use the included EvaluatorTest class to do this or create JUnit
tests).
Requirement 3: PLEASE SKIP