CSE 11 Programming Assignment 2

Due Date: Thursday, August 11, 10:00PM Pacific Time

Learning Goals

• Write and use classes to represent real world data, and relations between them
• Write methods that make decisions

Collaboration

Different assignments in this course have different collaboration policies. On this assignment, you can collaborate with anyone in the course, including sharing code. In your submission, give credit to all students and course staff who helped you with this assignment by noting their name and how you used their ideas or work. Note that using someone’s work without giving credit to them is a violation of academic integrity.

You can download the starter code for this assignment here:

https://github.com/ucsd-cse11-su222/cse11-pa2-starter

You will write all your code and comments in ExampleTweets.java.

Submission Checklist

• ExampleTweets.java
  • User class
    • toText method
  • Tweet class
    • longerThan method
    • moreLikes method
    • toText method
    • toLink method
  • ExampleTweets class
    • 4 real tweets
      • 2 from the same user
        • Link to the tweets (2 total)
        • Answer to the question: “Were there any parts of the Tweet that you couldn’t represent with the class design we chose?” (2 total)
      • 1 from different user
        • Link to the tweet (1 total)
        • Answer to the question: “Were there any parts of the Tweet that you couldn’t represent with the class design we chose?” (1 total)
      • 1 from different user separate from previous users
        • Link to the tweet (1 total)
        • Answer to the question: “Were there any parts of the Tweet that you couldn’t represent with the class design we chose?” (1 total)
    • Testing
      • 2 tests for User toText method
      • 2 tests for Tweet longerThan method
      • 2 tests for Tweet moreLikes method
      • 2 tests for Tweet toText method
      • 2 tests for Tweet toLink method

You will submit one file to the PA2 assignment:

• A single Java file called ExampleTweets.java to Gradescope for the PA2 assignment. This file will contain all three classes that you write, including Tweet, User, and ExamplesTweets.

Problem 1

In this programming assignment, you will be using tweets as data and representing them using objects. The choices we make will be similar to those in many social media posting platforms. You will be making two classes for implementation and one example class for testing your implementation. Altogether, you will create 3 classes in one file, and around a dozen objects.

User

The class User represents users, the authors of Tweets.

• Data: A User should contain the username of the account, the display name (also called full name) of the account, and the number of followers (there is more information we could store, but this is enough for some interesting work)
• Constructor: A standard constructor that takes a value for each field and initializes it
• Methods:

  • String toText()

    Takes no arguments and returns a string which contains the fullname followed by the username of the user, with a space between them and an "@" before the username, for example: “UC San Diego @UCSanDiego”

Note: To get information about the user (when creating user objects) you will have to go to their profile and see how many followers they have and then instantiate a new object with that value.

Tweet

The class Tweet represents a single tweet.

• Data: A Tweet should contain the text content of the Tweet, a reference to the User who authored the tweet, the count of likes the tweet has, and a unique id for the Tweet represented as a String.
• Constructor: A standard constructor that takes a value for each field and initializes it
• Methods:

  • boolean longerThan(Tweet other)

    Takes a Tweet, and returns true if the content of this one is longer (has more characters) than the content of other.

  • boolean moreLikes(Tweet other)

    Takes a Tweet, and returns true if the number of likes of this is more than the likes of other.

  • String toText()

    Returns a String that represents the Tweet object with all the User information as text, and also displays the tweet content and likes. The returned string should have the toText of the user followed by the content, followed by the number of likes, as in this example: "Julia Evans @b0rk : when debugging, your attitude matters : 468 Likes"

  • String toLink()

    This method returns a string representing the URL for the Tweet object Example output: "https://twitter.com/UCSanDiego/status/1445470129362407433"

ExampleTweets

The ExampleTweets class is for testing your own implementation.

In order to test your classes and methods, find four real tweets from twitter.com with the following properties:

• Two of them are from the same user
• The other two are from two different users

You may find these accounts useful and relevant for finding fun Tweets:

• https://twitter.com/UCSDJacobs
• https://twitter.com/acmucsd
• https://twitter.com/cassidoo
• https://twitter.com/kprather88

(If you can’t go to Twitter for some reason, let us know via Piazza or email and we’ll help you out – you may be able to complete the assignment with another social media example).

In your test class ExampleTweets, you will construct User objects and Tweet objects corresponding to these four tweets you found. In your test file ExamplesTweets.java, you will call each method you write at least twice using the objects you constructed to build these examples. Since there are 5 methods, you should have at least 10 method calls total to test your work, and every method should be called at least twice. For each tweet you found, write a comment before the line where you construct it with:

• A link to the Tweet
• An answer to this question: “Were there any parts of the Tweet that you couldn’t represent with the class design we chose?”

For checking off your work, you should have:

• 2 classes, each with fields as described above
• 5 total methods (one in User and four in Tweet)
• 2 examples for each method (10 total examples)
• Four Tweet objects with the link and question above answered
• Three User objects (to use to construct the Tweets)

A submission checklist can be found here

Grading

There are multiple oppurtunities to get feedback for PA2. By submitting before the deadline, you will receive feedback after it is graded shortly after the dealine. You may also submit to the Late/Resubmit for PA2 one time after the deadline to earn additional feedback.

For more information about the grading policy, visit the course syllabus.