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1 Object-Oriented Programming and Design D0010E Interactive lecture 2 Overview of the lecture Writing larger classes Documentation Recursion Thinking in Java Riley Object-Oriented Programming and Design D0010E Interactive lecture 2 Running larger programs divided up in separate classes 1

2 Eclipse We will use Eclipse as an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). It is installed in the computer lab. Eclipse is open-source software, it is available for all common computers and operating systems, and it can be downloaded and used for free from Building larger programs In the previous lecture, you saw small programs consisting of a single class. What if the program grows too large? A program can consist of several classes. However: We always need one main class containing a method main to start the program. Larger programs: example Perform simple mathematical operations. We will have one class where the operations are performed, and another main class which calls these operations. 2

3 Larger program: example MathMain.java main( ){ Math.java square(double x){ absvalue(double x){ Object-Oriented Programming and Design D0010E Interactive lecture 2 Design and external documentation How do you design a program? How do you decide how the code will be divided between the classes? And why divide at all? This is one part of program design, which you will learn during this course. Except for very small programs, the design part is in general far more important than the actual coding. 3

4 How to make other people understand your code? char*o=" <60>!?\\\n"_ doubie[010]_ int0,int1 _ Iong=0 _ iniine(int eise){int O1O=!O _ l=!o;for(;o1o<010;++o1o)l+=(o1o[doubie]*pow(eise,o1o));return l;int main(int booi,char*eise[]){int I=1,x=-*O;if(eIse){for(;I<010+1;I++)I[doubIe-1] =booi>i?atof(i[eise]):!o switch(*o)x++)abs(iniine(x))>iong&&(iong=abs(iniine(x )));int1=iong;main(-*o>>1,0);else{if(booi<*o>>1){int0=int1;int1=int0-2*iong/0 [O]switch(5[O]))putchar(x-*O?(int0>=inIine(x)&&do(1,x)do(0,true)do(0,false) case(2,1)do(1,true)do(0,false)6[o]case(-3,6)do(0,false)6[o]-3[o]:do(1,false) case(5,4)x?booi?0:6[o]:7[o])+*o:8[o]),x++;main(++booi,0); (A polynomial graphing program by Jonathan Hoyle, IOCCC 2004) Documenting your code This course will teach you how to write large programs. How can you help other people understand what you have done? Choose good names for classes, methods, variables Comment the code. Helps you understand the code. Write documentation. Helps you understand the idea behind the code. Javadoc A documentation method part of the Java language. Uses special tags (such to describe classes, fields, methods. Occur within /** */ 4

5 Javadoc The documentation can be extracted into HTML format Understand the code without even seeing it! This lets you view the program at a higher abstraction level, similar to UML Will be required in future lab assignments (not the first). 5

6 Object-Oriented Programming and Design D0010E Interactive lecture 2 Computational recursion Recursion Factorial.java: public static int factorial(int i){ int answer = 1; (NB! This is iteration, not recursion!) for(int j = 1; j <= i; j++){ answer = answer * j; return answer; Two definitions of the factorial operator Iterative: n! = 1 * 2 * * n Recursive: 0! = 1 n! = (n-1)! * n The recursive definition contains a base case and a recursive case. A base case is computed without recursion. 6

7 public static int factorial(int i){ int answer = 1; for(int j = 1; j <= i; j++){ Recursive answer = answer version * j; of Factorial.java return answer; Linear recursion: public static int factorial(int i){ if(i == 0){ return 1; else { return (factorial(i-1) * i); public static int factorial(int i){ Running recursive version if(i == 0){ return 1; else { return (factorial(i-1) * i); factorial(3) = factorial(2) * 3 = (factorial(1) * 2) * 3 = ((factorial(0) * 1) * 2) * 3 = ((1 * 1) * 2) * 3 = ((1) * 2) * 3 = (2) * 3 = 6 More recursion A recursive method that concatenates a string to itself i times: public static String strconcat(int i, String s){ if(i <= 0){ return ; else { return (s + strconcat(i 1, s)); 7

8 Recursion vs Iteration Everything that can be done with a loop can also be done by recursion. A recursive solution is often easier to understand than an iterative solution. A recursive solution may consume more resources than a corresponding iterative solution. Usually either memory or computational steps ( time ). Object-Oriented Programming and Design D0010E Interactive lecture 2 Binary/branching recursion and efficiency Fibonacci sequence Year 1202, Fibonacci studied how rabbits (ideally) breed. The solution is the recursive Fibonacci sequence: F0 = 0, F1 = 1, Fn = Fn-1 + Fn-2 After n months, Fn is the number of pairs of rabbits. Binary recursion, since we have two recursive calls. There are also two base cases (F0 and F1). 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711, 28657, 46368, 75025, , , miljon rabbits after 3 years. J 8

9 Fibonacci version 1 Binary (branching) recursion: static int fib(int i){ if(i <= 1){ return i; else { return fib(i-1) + fib(i-2); Efficiency 1 How does our program calculate for example fib(8)? fib(8) = fib(7)+fib(6)= fib(6)+fib(5)+fib(5)+fib(4)= fib(5)+fib(4)+fib(4)+fib(3)+fib(4)+fib(3)+fib(3)+fib(2)=... static int fib(int i){ if(i <= 1){ return i; else { return fib(i-1) + fib(i-2); 9

10 Efficiency 1 Our program turns out to be very inefficient! Computing fib(n) requires an exponential number ( 1.6 n ) of recursive calls. For n>2, computing fib(n) requires almost twice as many recursive calls as computing fib(n-1). So, except when n is small, this takes very long time. Fortunately, there are often ways to write a recursive program so it becomes efficient Fibonacci version 2 ) Efficiency 2 Here, each value in the sequence is computed exactly once but we need an array to store them in. Another technique: Tail recursion. Also called Accumulation in parameters. Each recursive call results in another (one) recursive call and no postponed computations. 10

11 Fibonacci version 3 Tail recursion: // to get fibonacci of n, make the call fib(n, 1, 0) // next and result hold the two largest numbers computed so far static int fib(int i, int next, int result) { if (i == 0) { return result; else { return fib(i-1, next+result, next); Fibonacci version 3 fib(4, 1, 0) = fib(3, 1, 1) = fib(2, 2, 1) = fib(1, 3, 2) = fib(0, 5, 3) = 3 // to get fibonacci of n, make the call fib(n, 1, 0) // next and result hold the two largest numbers computed so far static int fib(int i, int next, int result) { if (i == 0) { return result; else { return fib(i-1, next+result, next); 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, Efficiency 3 No need for an array to store values in. Parameters 2 and 3 hold values from the fibonacci sequence. But we (the computer) need to keep track of calls to methods. This also takes time. Let s get rid of the recursive calls: 11

12 Fibonacci version 4 Summary static int fib(int i){ if (i <= 1) { return i; else { return fib(i-1) + fib(i-2); 12

13 Summary You have seen How to write programs consisting of several classes How to document your code How to use recursive computation to solve problem 13

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