2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS COMPUTER SCIENCE AB SECTION II Time—1 hour and 45 minutes Number of questions—4 Percent of total grade—50 Directions: SHOW ALL YOUR WORK. REMEMBER THAT PROGRAM SEGMENTS ARE TO BE WRITTEN IN C++. Note: Assume that the standard libraries (e.g., iostream.h, fstream.h, math.h, etc.) and the AP C++ classes are included in any program that uses a program segment you write. If other classes are to be included, that information will be specified in individual questions. Unless otherwise noted, assume that all functions are called only when their preconditions are satisfied. A Quick Reference to the AP C++ classes is included in the case study insert.
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS 1. Periodically, a company processes the retirement of some of its employees. In this question, you will write functions to help the company determine whether an employee is eligible to retire and to process the retirement of employees who wish to retire. You will also analyze the runtime performance of one of the functions that you write. The Employee class is declared as follows. class Employee { public: int Age() const; // returns the age (in years) of this employee int YearsOnJob() const; // returns the number of years this employee has worked double Salary() const; // returns the salary of this employee in dollars int ID() const; // returns unique employee ID number // ... constructors, other member functions and data not shown };
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS The Company class is declared as follows. class Company { public: void ProcessRetirements(const apvector & claimants); // precondition: claimants is sorted in ascending order // by employee ID with no duplicates; // all claimants are in empList // postcondition: all eligible employees in claimants have been // removed from empList; empList has been resized to // reflect retirements; // empList remains sorted by employee ID; // //
salaryBudget has been updated to reflect remaining employees
private: bool EmployeeIsEligible(const Employee & emp) const; // postcondition: returns true if emp is eligible to retire; // otherwise, returns false apvector empList; // stores the employees sorted by employee ID in ascending order // empList.length() is the number of employees int retireAge; int retireYears; double retireSalary;
// minimum age to retire // minimum years on job to retire // minimum salary to retire
double salaryBudget;
// total salary of all employees
};
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS The data member empList is sorted in ascending order by employee ID. The total of all salaries is maintained in the data member salaryBudget. (a) An employee is eligible for retirement if (s)he meets at least two of the following requirements: 1. The employee is at least retireAge years old. 2. The employee has worked for at least retireYears. 3. The employee’s salary is at least retireSalary. Write the Company member function EmployeeIsEligible, which is described as follows. EmployeeIsEligible returns true if Employee emp is eligible for retirement, using the rules described above. Complete function EmployeeIsEligible below. bool Company::EmployeeIsEligible(const Employee & emp) const // postcondition: returns true if emp is eligible to retire; // otherwise, returns false (b) Write the Company member function ProcessRetirements, which is described as follows. The function takes as its only parameter an array, claimants, representing all employees that wish to retire. Assume that claimants is sorted in ascending order by ID number, contains no duplicates, and that all elements in claimants are also in empList. ProcessRetirements removes from empList only those employees listed in claimants that are eligible for retirement, resizes (shrinks) empList as appropriate, and decreases salaryBudget accordingly. In writing ProcessRetirements, you may call EmployeeIsEligible, specified in part (a). Assume that EmployeeIsEligible works as specified, regardless of what you wrote in part (a). Complete function ProcessRetirements below. void Company::ProcessRetirements(const apvector & claimants) // precondition: claimants is sorted in ascending order // by employee ID with no duplicates; // all claimants are in empList // postcondition: all eligible employees in claimants have been // removed from empList; empList has been resized to // reflect retirements; // empList remains sorted by employee ID; // salaryBudget has been updated to reflect remaining // employees
(c) Assume that N is the number of employees in the company. Give the best Big-Oh expression (in terms of N) for the worst-case running time for your implementation of the function ProcessRetirements. Justify your answer with reference to the code you wrote in part (b). You will NOT receive full credit if you do not provide a justification.
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS 2. Consider the problem of representing a filing system for student records that are stored in the drawers of a filing cabinet. The system uses a linked list in which each node represents a drawer of the filing cabinet. Each drawer in the list contains a pointer to the first node of a linked list of student records, a pointer to the next drawer in the filing cabinet, and the maximum student ID number that can be filed in that drawer. Within each drawer, the student records are stored by student ID number in ascending order. The drawers in the filing cabinet are ordered by the maximum student ID number that can be filed in each drawer. The maximum student ID number for the last drawer in the cabinet is greater than the largest possible student ID number. The diagram below illustrates the structure of the filing system. The first node in the list of drawers would be pointed to by the private data member drawerList of the FilingCabinet class as declared on the next page.
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS The following declarations represent this filing system. struct StudentNode { int idNum; StudentNode * next; // ... other student information not shown }; struct DrawerNode { int drawerMaxID; StudentNode * studentList; // if drawer is empty, studentList is NULL DrawerNode * next; }; class FilingCabinet { public: DrawerNode * FindDrawer(int studentID) const; // precondition: this FilingCabinet has at least one drawer; // studentID is less than or equal to drawerMaxID // of the last drawer // postcondition: returns the first DrawerNode * d such that // studentID is less than or equal to d->drawerMaxID void RemoveStudent(int studentID); // precondition: this FilingCabinet has at least one drawer; // studentID is less than or equal to drawerMaxID // of the last drawer // postcondition: if there is a node containing studentID in this // FilingCabinet, that node has been removed from its // drawer; otherwise this FilingCabinet is unchanged private: DrawerNode * drawerList; // ... constructor, other member functions, and data not shown };
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS (a) Write the FilingCabinet member function FindDrawer, which is described as follows. FindDrawer returns a pointer to the drawer in which studentID would be found. FindDrawer returns the first drawer in the list for which studentID is less than or equal to the maximum student ID number that can be filed in the drawer. Complete function FindDrawer below. DrawerNode * FilingCabinet::FindDrawer(int studentID) const // precondition: this FilingCabinet has at least one drawer; // studentID is less than or equal to drawerMaxID // of the last drawer // postcondition: returns the first DrawerNode * d such that // studentID is less than or equal to d->drawerMaxID
(b) Write the FilingCabinet member function RemoveStudent, which is described as follows. RemoveStudent should find the drawer in which studentID should be located and remove the list node containing that student ID from the list associated with that drawer (calling delete as necessary). If a node containing studentID is not in the drawer then the FilingCabinet is unchanged. In writing RemoveStudent, you may call FindDrawer specified in part (a). Assume that FindDrawer works as specified, regardless of what you wrote in part (a). Complete function RemoveStudent below. void FilingCabinet::RemoveStudent(int studentID) // precondition: this FilingCabinet has at least one drawer; // studentID is less than or equal to drawerMaxID // of the last drawer // postcondition: if there is a node containing studentID in this // FilingCabinet, that node has been removed from its // drawer; otherwise this FilingCabinet is unchanged
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS 3. This question involves reasoning about the code from the Marine Biology Case Study. A copy of the code is provided in the Appendix. The original version of the case study uses a two-dimensional matrix, myWorld, to represent the world in which the simulation takes place. Consider an alternate representation where the fish are stored in a binary search tree. myWorld is replaced by myFishBSTRoot, a pointer to the root node of the binary search tree. The fish are stored in the binary search tree according to the ordering of their positions, top-down, left-right (row-major order). The following overloaded operator has been added to the public section of the Fish class. bool operator < (const Fish & rhs) const; // postcondition: returns true if the location of this fish occurs // before the location of rhs in row-major order In the example below, myFishBSTRoot points to the root node of a binary search tree containing seven fish (each indicated by the coordinates of its position).
The binary search tree of fish will be implemented using the following declaration. struct { Fish Node Node
Node theFish; * left; * right;
Node(); // sets theFish to emptyFish, left and right to NULL Node(const Fish & fsh); // sets theFish to fsh, left and right to NULL };
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS Consider the following changes (shown in bold) to the private section of the Environment class. private: bool InRange(const Position & pos) const; // postcondition: returns true if pos in grid, // returns false otherwise void AllFishHelper(Node * root, apvector & fishList, int & index) const; void AddFishHelper(Node * & root, const Fish & fsh); Node * myFishBSTRoot;
// root pointer for binary search // tree of fish
int myNumRows; int myNumCols; // from file input when environment constructed int myFishCreated; int myFishCount;
// # fish ever created // # fish in current environment
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS (a) The Environment member function AllFish is modified to use the private helper function AllFishHelper as follows. apvector Environment::AllFish() const // postcondition: returned vector (call it fishList) contains all // fish in top-down, left-right order: // top-left fish in fishList[0], // bottom-right fish in fishList[fishList.length()-1]; // # fish in environment is fishList.length() { apvector fishList(myFishCount); int index = 0; apstring s = ""; AllFishHelper(myFishBSTRoot, fishList, index); for (k = 0; k < myFishCount; k++) { s += fishList[k].Location().ToString() + " "; } DebugPrint(5, "Fish vector = " + s); return fishList; } Write the private Environment member function AllFishHelper, which is described as follows. AllFishHelper should add all the fish in the tree represented by root to fishList, starting from index. It is guaranteed that fishList is large enough to hold all the fish in the tree. In writing AllFishHelper, you may use any Environment member functions or the public member functions of any other class used in this case study, including Fish::operator < specified at the beginning of the question. Assume that all member functions work as specified.
Complete function AllFishHelper below. void Environment::AllFishHelper(Node * root, apvector & fishList, int & index) const // precondition: 0 <= index < fishList.length(); // there are no more than fishList.length() – index fish // in the subtree represented by root // postcondition: All fish in the subtree represented by root have been // added to fishList in top-down, left-right order, // starting from index; // index has been increased by the number of fish // added to fishList
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS (b) The Environment member function AddFish is modified to use the private helper function AddFishHelper as follows. void Environment::AddFish(const Position & pos) // precondition: no fish already at pos, i.e., IsEmpty(pos) // postcondition: fish created at pos { if (! IsEmpty(pos)) { cerr << "error, attempt to create a fish at non-empty: " << pos << endl; } myFishCreated++; AddFishHelper(myFishBSTRoot, Fish(myFishCreated, pos)); myFishCount++; } Write the private Environment member function AddFishHelper, which is described as follows. AddFishHelper should insert the fish into the binary search tree represented by root. In writing AddFishHelper, you may use any Environment member functions or the public member functions of any other class used in this case study, including Fish::operator < specified at the beginning of the question. Assume that all member functions work as specified. Complete function AddFishHelper below. void Environment::AddFishHelper(Node * & root, const Fish & fsh) // precondition: root represents a subtree of a binary search tree; // nodes are ordered by fish position; no node in the // tree contains a fish at the same position as fsh // postcondition: Fish fsh has been added to the subtree represented by // root, maintaining correct order of nodes
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS 4. Consider the problem of separating a string into its component pieces, called tokens. The tokens of a string are its substrings that do not contain white space (spaces and tabs). For example: # tokens
string "" "apple" "big red house" " this is a test"
tokens
0 1 3 4
"apple" "big", "red", "house" "this", "is", "a", "test"
The functionality of separating a string into its tokens can be encapsulated in a StringTokenizer class. The class provides access to the tokens in a string and has the following characteristics. • A constructor that allows an instance to be created using a string parameter as the source of tokens • A member function that returns the number of tokens • A member function that returns the string that is the kth token where the first token has index 0 and the last token has index one less than the number of tokens • An appropriate data representation to support O(1) implementation of these two member functions. (a) Write the class declaration for StringTokenizer as it would appear in a StringTokenizer.h file. In writing the declaration, you must: • • • • •
choose appropriate identifiers for member functions and data members, provide the functionality specified above, use the const qualifier for functions and parameters where appropriate, provide a data representation consistent with the specification above, and make design decisions that are consistent with information-hiding principles.
YOU SHOULD NOT WRITE THE IMPLEMENTATIONS OF THE MEMBER FUNCTIONS OR THE CONSTRUCTOR OF THE StringTokenizer CLASS. Complete the StringTokenizer class declaration on the following page in the skeleton provided.
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS class StringTokenizer { public:
private:
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2003 AP® COMPUTER SCIENCE AB FREE-RESPONSE QUESTIONS (b) Write free function CreateAcronym, which is described as follows. CreateAcronym takes a string, str, as a parameter and returns a string that is the acronym formed from the first character of each token of str. The following table shows several examples of calls to CreateAcronym. str
String returned by CreateAcronym(str)
"red orange yellow green blue indigo violet"
"roygbiv"
"
"asap"
as
soon
as
possible"
"Rolling on the floor laughing"
"Rotfl"
"As Far As I Know"
"AFAIK"
More formally, the acronym for a string str is formed by concatenating the first character of each token of str in the same order that the tokens appear in str. In writing CreateAcronym, you must use the StringTokenizer class you designed in part (a). To receive full credit, the tokens of str must only be obtained by using the member functions of the StringTokenizer class that implement the specification given at the beginning of the question. Assume that the StringTokenizer has been implemented as specified. Complete function CreateAcronym below. apstring CreateAcronym(const apstring & str)
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