Rules of submission
This assignment must be submitted to the Moodle submission page for Homework 8 by 11:00 PM on Friday, 22 March.
Your submission must contain two classes
Point1080 and ManyPoints that contain
the methods described below.
Getting started
In Lab 9 you wrote a program for
a class Point1080, and
in Lab 10 you wrote two methods
randomPoints and averagePoint
in a class ManyPoints that
used arrays of Point1080 objects.
If you don’t have Point1080,
randomPoints and averagePoint written,
you need to do that now.
Be sure they are all in the edu.unca.cs.csci202 package.
The task
Add one more method, manySmallSquares, which receives
a positive integer parameter n and returns an
n×2 array of Point1080 objects
which represents n small squares, randomly
distibuted across the 1920×1080 grid and each of size 10
Let’s say your method is called with the following statement
littleBoxes = manySmallSquares(100) ;
This should return a 100×2 array.
The i’th box is represented by
littleBoxes[i][0]
and littleBoxes[i][1].
littleBoxes[i][0] should be the vertex
of the upper-left corner of the box, and
littleBoxes[i][1] should be the vertex
of the lower-right corner. Each box is 10×10. This means that
the x and y co-ordinates of the lower-right corner
are 10 more than those of the upper-left corner.
This restriction is certainly artificial, but it does make the programming
easier.
So why not just call randomPoints and then
add 10 to the x and y co-ordinates of each
point of the returned array?
The only problem is that, after the addition of 10, some of those points
would fall off the grid.
However, it wouldn’t be hard to change the range of the random variables.