Wentworth Institute of Technology
Division of Professional and Continuing Studies
COMP385 Section 71 - Data Structures II - Fall, 2005
Homework 1 – Traffic Lights
Instructor: Bob Goldstein (617) 912-2512
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Due Date: September 13, 2005
Hand In: Printout of program code and dialogue of how it runs.
Purpose:
This homework is intended to use the enum facility, enhanced for statement and the Scanner class..
Description:
This program is based on problem 1.10 of Ford and Topp
Declare the enum
enum TrafficLight{green, yellow, red};
Using an enhanced for loop and a switch statement, sequence through the TrafficLight values and
output the color of the light along with a message associated with each color. The messages are as follows:
green – “SafeToGo”
yellow – “ExerciseCaution”
red = “StopImmediately”
The messages should NOT be hardcoded into the program. The messages should be read from a file that
you create. Make the file with the messages using a text editor (Notepad is ok), called trafficText.txt and
read in the messages using the Scanner class.
Here are the contents and format of the tab-delimited file:
green SafeToGo
yellew ExerciseCaution
red StopImmediately
Here is an output of the program. The program requires no user input:
3 color messages read into the program
The values of the traffic lights and their meanings are:
green SafeToGo
yellow ExerciseCaution
red StopImmediately
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