AP Computer Science Programming Projects – Vars/Math/Strings
1. Write a program that simulates rolling a pair of dice. You can simulate rolling one
die by choosing one of the integers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6 at random. Use the
(int)(Math.random()*6)+1 function to have the computer report an
appropriate random number. Assign this value to a variable to represent one of the
dice that are being rolled. Do this twice and add the results together to get the
total roll. Your program should report the number showing on each die as well as
the total roll. For example:
The first die comes up 3
The second die comes up 5
Your total roll is 8
2. Write a program that helps the user count his change. The program should ask
how many quarters the user has, then how many dimes, then how many nickels,
then how many pennies. Then the program should tell the user how much money
he has, expressed in dollars.
3. If you have N eggs, then you have N/12 dozen eggs, with N%12 eggs left over.
(This is essentially the definition of the / and % operators for integers.) Write a
program that asks the user how many eggs she has and then tells the user how
many dozen eggs she has and how many extra eggs are left over.
4. A gross of eggs is equal to 144 eggs. Extend your previous program so that it will
tell the user how many gross, how many dozen, and how many left over eggs she
has. For example, if the user says that she has 1342 eggs, then your program
would respond with
Your number of eggs is 9 gross, 3 dozen, and 10
since 1342 is equal to 9*144 + 3*12 + 10
5. Write a program that takes a complete 10 digit telephone number including dashes
and then displays the area code and telephone number separately.
6. Write a program that requests a letter and gives its first (and only) position in the
sentence “The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.” E.g. If the users types
“b” then the message “B first occurs in position 10” is displayed. (Hint: be careful
of upper vs. lowercase letters input by the user!)
7. Request a sentence, a word in the sentence, and another word and then display the
sentence with the first word replaced by the second. E.g. If the user types “What
you don’t know won’t hurt you” followed by “know” and “owe”, then the
message “What you don’t owe won’t hurt you” appears.
8. Write a program that asks for the user’s full name and then responds with the
name in the form: Last Name, First Name M.I. e.g John Quincy Adams would be
Adams, John Q.