Week 13

We cover chapter 14 in the book - Files and Streams

This week we modify the Guess a Word program to use words from a text file. We also create a preferences file that saves/restores user preferences.

English words basic text file.

Watch the class lecture recording for the week. We do a class exercise in the recording that you will need to finish for your homework.

Homework Labs:

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You need to complete the Chapter 14 GuessAWordDictionary that we had nearly completed in class.

Do everything we did in class: 3pts

• Copied and renamed GuessAWordExceptionHandling.
• Modify to read in an external dictionary word list.
• Fall back to the original 10 words and pop up warning if file could not be found.
• Read/Write preferences.

On your own (homework) create an output file that does the following: 7pts

• Create a header row when the output file is created for the very first time. This is for purposes of reading into a spreadsheet where the top row is a header row. This needs to be done programmably. There is a file method, Exists() that you should use.
  
• Each successive row should contain Timestamp, Player name, Word, Attempts in comma separated text file format.

Remember to take out the random number seed.

Submit four things to the D2L dropbox for these labs:
1) Screenshot of your running program with data. Make sure you capture your entire desktop.
2) Screenshot of as much of your code as possible.
3) The entire project folder as a ZIP file. This folder should contain your entire project and solution.
4) The csv (text) file created when running the program.