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AssessmentPartTwo.java

+
+public class AssessmentPartTwo {
+	
+	public int scrabbleScore(String aWord)
+	{
+		// 03 -Scrabble Score
+		// Complete this method so that it returns the scrabble score for the word in aWord
+		// In scrabble each letter is worth a number of points and each word is worth the
+		// sum of the scores of the letters in it. For this assignment we will ignore
+		// double/treble letter/word bonuses.
+		// The English language points per letter can be found at
+		// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions
+		// You will need to come up with a way of connecting each letter to its score and
+		// a way of identifying each letter in the word.
+		
+		// All of the letters and their value.
+		// A, E, I, O, U, L, N, R, S, T = 1
+		// D, G = 2
+		// B, C, M, P = 3
+		// F, H, V, W, Y = 4
+		// K = 5
+		// J, X = 8
+		// Q, Z = 10
+		
+		// Is method converts any string into uppercase letters so that it can calculate the score of the word. It turnes lowercase letters into uppercase letters.
+		aWord = aWord.toUpperCase();
+		
+		// This method declares that the integer Score is equal to 0.
+		int Score = 0;
+		
+		// I have used a for loop so that when a word is entered it will star at 0 and continue the loop untill it reaches the end of the length of the word.
+		
+		for (int i=0; i<aWord.length(); i++) {
+		// This line is used to calculate the characters of the variable aWord in the for loop.
+			char calculateaWord = aWord(i); 
+		
+		// I have uses a switch statement instead of an If statement becasue i have a large number of possible outcomes and it works with the char primative data type. 
+		switch (calculateaWord) {
+		
+		// If the switch statement is equal to a case then it will execute the case untill a break statement is achived. 
+	
+		case 'A': return 1;
+		case 'E': return 1;
+		case 'I': return 1;
+		case 'O': return 1;
+		case 'U': return 1;
+		case 'L': return 1;
+		case 'N': return 1;
+		case 'R': return 1;
+		case 'S': return 1;
+		case 'T': return 1;
+		// The break statement is used to show that teh switch has terminated and the program moves onto the next letter.
+		break;
+		
+		case 'D': return 2;
+		case 'G': return 2;
+		break;
+		
+		case 'B': return 3;
+		case 'C': return 3;
+		case 'M': return 3;
+		case 'P': return 3;
+		break;
+		
+		case 'F': return 4;
+		case 'H': return 4;
+		case 'V': return 4;
+		case 'W': return 4;
+		case 'Y': return 4;
+		break;
+		
+		case 'K': return 5;
+		break;
+		
+		case 'J': return 8;
+		case 'X': return 8;
+		break;
+		
+		case 'Q': return 10;
+		case 'Z': return 10;
+		break;
+	}
+}
+		// This returnes the total of the score to the console. 
+		return score ;
+	}
+	
+	
+	public Boolean passwordValidator(String password)
+	{
+		// 04 - Password Validator
+		// Complete this method to validate that the String password
+		// is a valid password
+		// A password is valid if it is
+		// - between 8 and 16 characters long (inclusive)
+		// - made up of letters (upper or lower), numbers, and the following characters !�$%
+		// - has at least one lower case letter, one upper case letter and a number
+		// - does not contain the phrases 'password' or 'passwd'
+		
+		
+		String = password; 
+		// This makes is so that if the password is less than 8 characters it will return as false.
+		if (password.length() = 8) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		// This makes is so that if the password is more than 16 characters it will return as false.
+		if (password.length() = 16) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		// This CharSequence is used to check that the special characters are in the password.
+		// It runs an if statement to see if the password string uses one of those 4 characters.
+		CharSequence specialCharacter = "!�$%"
+			if (boolean test = String.contains(specialCharacter){
+				return true;
+			}
+		// This CharSequence is used to check that the word password is not used in the password.
+		CharSequence password = "password"
+				if(boolean test2 = String.contains("password")) {
+					return false;
+				}
+		// This CharSequence is used to check that the word passwd is not used in the password.
+		CharSequence password = "passwd"
+				if(boolean test3 = String.contains("passwd")) {
+					return false;
+				}
+		// This for loop is used to check that the password includes a digit, upper case letter and a lower case letter. 
+		for (int i = 0; i < password.length(); i ++) {
+			if (Character.isDigit(password.charAt(i))) {
+				return true;
+		}
+			// This else if statement returnes true if there is a lower case letter in the password.
+			else if (Character.isLowerCase(password.charAt(i))) {
+				return true;
+			}
+			// This else if statement returnes true if there is a lower case letter in the password.
+			else if(Character.isUpperCase(Password.charAt(i))) {
+				return true;
+			}
+		}
+			}
+		
+		return password; 
+	}
+
+}