Project 3

Introduction

This project will give you practice writing code in OCaml. Do not use any imperative style in your programs . (i.e., no loops or assignments changing the value of symbols)

Project Updates

• Apr 2 1-day extension for Project 3, deadline is now 11:59pm Saturday , April 5th, 2008.

• Apr 1 Added examples count_chars.ml, count_lines.ml of how I/O may be used for part 3.

• Mar 28 Public/release tests have been added to project 3. Project description has been modified, mostly to simplify the portion of the project on using lists of booleans to represent integers.

Getting Started

• For Unix: Download the archive file p3.tar and extract its contents using the command: tar xf p3.tar.
• For Windows: Download the zip file p3.zip and extract its contents by double-clicking on the icon.

Along with files used to make direct submissions to the submit server (submit.jar, .submit, submit.rb), you will find the following project files:

• Your OCaml programs
  • part1.ml
  • part2.ml
  • part3.ml
• Public tests
  • public_part1.ml
  • public_part2_bool.ml
  • public_part2_paths.ml
  • public_part3.in
• Expected output for public test
  • public_part1.out
  • public_part2_bool.out
  • public_part2_paths.out
  • public_part3.out
• Utility code
  • testUtils.ml
• Directions on how to run public tests
  • README.txt

Part 1: Simple OCaml functions

• Write a function prod l : int list -> int that returns the product of the elements of l. The function prod should return 1 if the list is empty.

• Write a function index l e : 'a list -> 'a -> int which takes a list and a single element and returns the position of the last occurrence of that element in the list (indexed by zero). You should return -1 if the element is not in the list.

• Write a function unzip l : ('a*'b) list -> ('a list)*('b list) that given a list of pairs, returns a pair of lists with the elements in the same order. For example, unzip [(1, 2); (3, 4)] = ([1; 3], [2;4]).

• Write a function app_int f m n : (int->'a)->int->int->'a list that returns the list [f m; f (m+1); ...; f n]. It should return the empty list if n<m

Part 2: More interesting OCaml functions

• As you know, unsigned integers can be represented in binary notation. We can represent a binary number by a list of booleans (where true = 1, false = 0), with the least significant "digit" first. For example, we might represent decimal 12 (binary 1100) as [false; false; true; true] or decimal 6 (binary 110) as [false; true; true]. Zero is represented by [false].
  • Write a function itob : int -> bool list to convert a positive OCaml integer to a list of booleans, following the encoding above. (You may assume the argument to itob is positive.)
  • Write a function btoi : bool list -> int to convert from a list of booleans to an OCaml integer.
  • Write a function shift : bool list -> bool -> bool list that performs a logic shift on the boolean value. This function should take a list and a boolean value indicating if the shift is a left shift or right shift (use true for right shifts and false for left shifts). Assume that the space used to store the given list is the full space available, so the input and output should be lists of the same length. Shift should work as for a normal binary number no matter how the binary number is represented. That is, in the right shift, the least "significant" bit in the binary will be moved out (lost) and in the left shift, the most "significant" bit will be moved out (lost). For each shift, a zero is always shifted in instead.
  • Write a function add : bool list -> bool list -> bool list to add two lists of booleans. Use only boolean and list operations.

  Note: none of the binary operations should use other binary operations that you've already made.

• In Squaresville, streets are numbered 1..M and the perpendicular avenues are numbered 1..N. Your task is to write a function
  paths f m n : (int->int->bool)->int->int->int

  that computes the number of ways to get from mth street at nth avenue to 1st street at 1st avenue without going backwards, meaning you always move to a lower numbered street or avenue. During the searching of paths, print out each obtained path from mth street at nth avenue to 1st street at 1st avenue as a string in the format "(m,n)(s,a)(s',a')...(1,1)", where each tuple represents an intersection on the path during the searching. Each string for a path takes one line in the outputs. Note that there are m + n - 1 tuples in each output path.

  Unfortunately, some of the intersections are blocked. The first argument to paths, f, is a function such that f i j returns true if ith street at jth avenue is blocked, and false otherwise.

  Here are some example cases you might want to try.

  • m = 5, n = 7, f = fun i j -> false
  • m = 5, n = 7, f = fun i j -> (i=3) && (j=4)
  • m = 10, n = 10, f = fun i j -> (i mod 2 = 0) && (j mod 2 = 0)

  Note that paths(fun i j -> false) 1 1 should return 1. Though you cannot move through a blocked intersection , you can start at one, so paths(fun i j -> true) 1 1 should also return 1. The order for printing the paths does not matter. You only need to find out the right number of paths and print out each path correctly.

Part 3: Frequency Counts

For this part, write a program that computes frequency counts for all characters in an input file. The input to your program is a text file. As output, your program first prints a line that lists the characters that appeared in the file, in the order in which the characters are first seen. Then after that line is a list of the number of times each character appears, ordered by number of occurrences of each character. In particular:

1. We will compile your file with ocamlc part3.ml, and then run the resulting a.out file to execute your program.
2. Your program should read its input file from standard input and write its output to standard output. The input file will contain 0 or more lines of text. (There are lots of ways that you can do this, some will make your life easier than others... check out the OCaml modules. The ^D (or control D) shown in the input is how that input stream is ended.)
3. Lower and upper case letters are equivalent and should be printed as upper case characters.
4. All whitespace characters (tab, space, newline) count as the single "space" character. All other characters count as separate characters. The space should be sorted in the same position as Ocaml ' '.
5. Your program should first print one line containing each unique character appearing in the file, in the order that each character is first seen. No other characters appear on this line. The "space" character should be printed as the five letters space.
6. After printing the line containing all the characters, for each character in that line print a line with the following format:

   Character[x] appears y times.
   with x and y replaced by the appropriate values. y is an integer with no leading 0. For the "space" character, x should be space.

7. The frequency counts should be printed in decreasing order of occurrence.
8. If two frequency counts are the same, print them in lexicographic (i.e., alphabetical) order. Space comes before any letter in the alphabet. Special characters should be printed in their ASCII order.
9. Do NOT use arrays or hash table in your solution. (That makes the problem way too simple! The goal is to get you familiar with functional programming.)

Example

% ocamlc part3.ml
% ./a.out
foo: bar
baz qux
^D
FO:spaceBARZQUX
Character[space] appears 4 times.
Character[A] appears 2 times.
Character[B] appears 2 times.
Character[O] appears 2 times.
Character[:] appears 1 times.
Character[F] appears 1 times.
Character[Q] appears 1 times.
Character[R] appears 1 times.
Character[U] appears 1 times.
Character[X] appears 1 times. 
Character[Z] appears 1 times.

Submission

• Put your program files part1.ml, part2.ml, and part3.ml files in a zip file and submit it to the submit server by clicking on the submit link in the column "web submission".

  

  Next, use the submit dialog to submit your zip file.

  

  Select your file using the "Browse" button, then press the "Submit project!" button.

• Submit directly by executing a Java program on a computer with Java and network access. Use the submit.jar file from the archive p3.tar, To submit, go to the directory containing your project, then either execute submit.rb or type the following command directly:
  java -jar submit.jar

  You will be asked to enter your class account and password, then all files in the directory (and its subdirectories) will be put in a jar file and submitted to the submit server. If your submission is successful you will see the message:

  Successful submission # received for project 3

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