ICS 111, Introduction to Computer Science
Lab 15 - Counting Characters - March 9

This lab will help the student by:

• Working with Characters
• Doing math in Java
• Printing Strings and Doubles
• Writing user friendly messages to the screen
• Editing, compiling and running a JAVA program

Note:  The login / password that you signed up for is for using the computers in the lab this semester.  Please write down your username and password and keep it in a safe place, since you will need this for every lab this semester..  This user name / password is only for gaining access to the lab computers, and has nothing to do with logging into UH UNIX.  Also, be careful and make sure that you logout from the computers when you leave the lab or other persons may see your stuff or use your account to do "bad" things.

Instructions:

To receive credit for this lab assignment, you must be finished by Thursday, March 11, at 11:59 p.m.  After this time you will not receive any credit.  Future lab assignments will be due by 11:59 p.m. on the day of the lab assignment.

• Write the program described on page 63 of your lab manual.  You do not have to follow this exactly- you can be creative.
• The specs can be changed a little bit as follows:
  Have 4 methods callable from the main method.  Print out a menu and ask the user to choose what they would like to do. 
  
  method 1
  public static int countBlanks(String sInput ) it will return the number of blanks in sInput
  
  method 2
  public static void countVowels(String sInput ) it will print the number of a, e, i, o and u found.
  
  method 3
  public static int countChar(String sInput)
  //reads the character inside the method
  
  method 4
  public static int countChar(String sInput, char c)
  //sends the character to be counted as a parameter
  
  There should be a loop in your main method as specified in step 5.
  
   
• Before you submit your code, make sure that your code is formatted cleanly. Every time you open a new {, you should indent everything two spaces underneath it. For example:

  public class HelloWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
      System.out.println("Hello World!");
    }
  }

• Follow the Java Coding Standard.  This includes the formatting described above, as well as rules on comment blocks, inline commenting and spacing.
   
• Compile and run the program.  Your program must compile without any errors, and must run properly to receive credit for this lab.