Description
Introduction
This assignment will give you some initial experience with programming in
C. Your task is to write the following small C programs.
• Please be careful to follow the I/O formats exactly.
• You can assume that inputs will be correctly formatted.
sortArray.c (20 points)
Write a program that will read an array from a file and sort the given array.
It should return the array sorted with all even numbers in ascending order at
the front followed by all odd numbers in descending order. You may assume
that input array will not have more than 20 elements.
You can use any sorting algorithm you like, but you must implement it
yourself (no using library sort functions).
Input format: Your program will take the file name as a command-line
input. The first line in the file provides the total number of values in the
array. The second line will contain a list of numbers separated by tabs. For
example a sample input file file1.txt is:
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25 10 1 99 4 2
Output format: Your output will be the sorted list of numbers, even
numbers (ascending) and then odd numbers (descending), each separated
by tabs.
$ ./sortArray file1.txt
2 4 10 99 25 1
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linkedList.c (20 points)
In this part, you’ll implement a linked list that maintains a list of integers
in sorted (increasing) order. The list can contain duplicate elements.
Input format: This program takes a file name as an command-line
argument. The file contains a number of lines of input (possibly 0). Each
line contains a character, either i or d, followed by a tab character, and then
an integer.
If the line starts with i, your program should insert that number in the
linked list in sorted order. If it is already present, your program can insert
it before or after the existing entry.
If the line starts with a d, your program should delete the value from the
linked list. If there are duplicates, your program should delete only the first
occurrence of the value. If the requested value is not present in the linked
list, your program should ignore this line of the input.
Output format: If the input file doesn’t exist, your program should
print error.
Otherwise, your program should print two lines of output:
• the number of nodes in the list (including duplicates)
• a tab-separated list of the values of the linked list in order, with duplicate values only printed once
Example Execution
Let’s assume we have 3 text files with the following contents:
file1.txt:
d 7
i 10
i 12
d 10
i 12
i 10
Then the result will be:
$ ./linkedList file1.txt
3
10 12
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hashTable.c (20 points)
In this part, you will implement a hash table containing integers that has
10,000 buckets. For collision resolution, use chaining with a linked list. This
means that if there is a collision at a particular bucket then you maintain a
linked list of all values stored at that bucket. Use following hash function:
key modulo the number of buckets.
Note that C’s modulo operator returns a negative number for negative
inputs, so x % N will be in the range [−N + 1, N − 1] instead of [0, N − 1].
For this assignment, please add N to negative results to get them into the
nonnegative range. For example, your hash function should map an input
of -5 to bucket 9995.
Input format: This program takes a file name as a command-line argument. Each line of the file contains a character, either i or s, followed by
a tab and then an integer. For each line that starts with i, your program
should insert that number in the hash table if it is not present. If the line
starts with a s, your program should search the hash table for that value.
Output format: Your program should print two counts: (1) the number of insertions where a collision occurred (including due to duplicate
values), and (2) the number of successful searches (where the value was
present).
Example Execution
Let’s assume we have a text file with the following contents:
file2.txt:
i 10
i 12
s 10
i 10010
s 5
s 10010
The the results will be:
$ ./hashTable file2.txt
1
2
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stringOps.c (20 points)
This part requires you to read an input string representing a sentence, form
a word whose letters are all the vowels in the given sentence, and print it.
You should preserve the case of the vowels in the input.
Input and output format: This program takes a string of spaceseparated words, and should output a single word as the output.
$ ./stringOps Hello World.
eoo
$ ./stringOps Welcome to CS211
eoeo
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bst.c (20 points)
In this part, you’ll implement a binary search tree. The tree must satisfy the
binary search tree property: the key in each node must be greater than all
keys stored in the left sub-tree, and smaller than all keys in right sub-tree.
You have to dynamically allocate space for each node and free the space for
the nodes at the end of the program.
Input format:
This program takes a file name as a command-line argument. The file
is either blank or contains successive lines of input. Each line starts with
i followed by a tab and then an integer. Your program should insert that
number in the binary search tree if it is not already there. If it is already
present, you should ignore that line of input.
Output format:
If the input file does not exist, your program should print error.
Otherwise, your program should print a single tab-separated line containing all the elements in the tree in ascending order. To print elements in
ascending order, you can do an in-order traversal of the tree (visit the left
child, then the parent, and then the right child).
Example Execution
Let’s assume we have a file file1.txt with the following contents:
i 5
i 3
i 4
i 3
i 6
Executing the program in the following fashion should produce the output shown below:
$ ./bst file1.txt
3 4 5 6
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Getting started
You should first download and expand the autograder and provided files (on
ilab):
tar xvf autograder.tar
tar xvf hw1-provided.tar
The provided tarball gives you a Makefile and template .c files.
You can also download these locally and then copy them to ilab using
scp: scp *.tar yourNetID@ilab.cs.rutgers.edu:cs211 (assuming you
have a cs211 directory there).
Note that the autograder expects hw1 to be in the same directory as
autograder.py, so you will have to move things to match.
Submission
If you develop on your local machine, please be sure to test your code on
ilab before submitting.
Please submit the assignment on Canvas as a tar file named hw1.tar.
To create this file, put everything that you are submitting into a directory
(folder) named hw1. Then, cd into the directory containing hw1 (that is,
hw1’s parent directory) and run the following command:
tar cvf hw1.tar hw1
To check that you have correctly created the tar file, you can copy it
(hw1.tar) into an empty directory and run the following command:
tar xvf hw1.tar
This will re-expand your tar file and should create a directory named
hw1 in the (previously) empty directory with your code.
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Autograder
We provide an autograder in autograder.tar to test your assignment. Executing the following command will create the autograder folder:
tar xvf autograder.tar
There are two modes available for testing your assignment with the autograder.
First mode
Testing when you are writing code with a hw1 folder
(1) Let’s say you have a hw1 folder with the directory structure as described in the assignment.
(2) Copy the folder to the directory of the autograder
(3) Run the autograder with the following command
python autograder.py
It will run your programs and print your scores.
If you are running this on your local machine and the autograder has
syntax errors, you may be using python 3. You can probably run python2
autograder.py instead to force it to use version 2.
Second mode
This mode is to test your final tar file before submission.
(1) Copy hw1.tar to the autograder directory
(2) Run the autograder with hw1.tar as the argument:
python autograder.py hw1.tar
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