Animal Game in Java
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Last Updated: April 13, 2016
// FILE: AnimalGuess.java
// This animal-guessing program illustrates the use of the binary tree node class.

import java.util.Scanner;

/******************************************************************************
* The <CODE>AnimalGuess</CODE> Java application illustrates the use of
* the binary tree node class is a small animal-guessing game.
*
* <p><dt><b>Java Source Code for this class:</b><dd>
*   <A HREF="../applications/Animals.java">
*   http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/applications/Animals.java
*   </A>
*
* @author Michael Main 
*   <A HREF="mailto:main@colorado.edu"> (main@colorado.edu) </A>
*
* @version
*   Jul 22, 2005
******************************************************************************/
public class AnimalGame
{
  private static Scanner stdin = new Scanner(System.in);
  
  /**
  * The main method prints instructions and repeatedly plays the 
  * animal-guessing game. As the game is played, the taxonomy tree
  * grows by learning new animals. The <CODE>String</CODE> argument
  * (<CODE>args</CODE>) is not used in this implementation.
  **/
  public static void main(String[ ] args)
  {
   BTNode<String> root;

   instruct( );
   root = beginningTree( );
   do
     play(root);
   while (query("Shall we play again?"));

   System.out.println("Thanks for teaching me a thing or two.");
  }
  
  
  /**
  * Print instructions for the animal-guessing game.
  **/
  public static void instruct( )
  {
   System.out.println("Please think of an animal.");
   System.out.println("I will ask some yes/no questions to try to figure");
   System.out.println("out what you are.");
  }
  

  /**
  * Play one round of the animal guessing game.
  * @param <CODE>current</CODE>
  *   a reference to the root node of a binary taxonomy tree that will be
  *   used to play the game.
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The method has played one round of the game, and possibly
  *   added new information about a new animal.
  * @exception java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
  *   Indicates that there is insufficient memory to add new
  *   information to the tree.
  **/
  public static void play(BTNode<String> current)
  {
   while (!current.isLeaf( ))
   {
     if (query(current.getData( )))
      current = current.getLeft( );
     else
      current = current.getRight( );
   }

   System.out.print("My guess is " + current.getData( ) + ". ");
   if (!query("Am I right?"))
     learn(current);
   else
     System.out.println("I knew it all along!");
  }
  

  /**
  * Construct a small taxonomy tree with four animals.
  * @param - none
  * @return
  *   a reference to the root of a taxonomy tree with the animals:
  *   kangaroo, mouse, trout, robin.
  * @exception OutOfMemoryError
  *   Indicates that there is insufficient memory to create the tree.
  **/
  public static BTNode<String> beginningTree( )   
  {
   BTNode<String> root;
   BTNode<String> child;

   final String ROOT_QUESTION = "Are you a mammal?";
   final String LEFT_QUESTION = "Are you bigger than a cat?";
   final String RIGHT_QUESTION = "Do you live underwater?";
   final String ANIMAL1 = "Kangaroo";
   final String ANIMAL2 = "Mouse";
   final String ANIMAL3 = "Trout";
   final String ANIMAL4 = "Robin";
  
   // Create the root node with the question ?Are you a mammal??
   root = new BTNode<String>(ROOT_QUESTION, null, null);

   // Create and attach the left subtree.
   child = new BTNode<String>(LEFT_QUESTION, null, null);
   child.setLeft(new BTNode<String>(ANIMAL1, null, null));
   child.setRight(new BTNode<String>(ANIMAL2, null, null));
   root.setLeft(child);

   // Create and attach the right subtree.
   child = new BTNode<String>(RIGHT_QUESTION, null, null);
   child.setLeft(new BTNode<String>(ANIMAL3, null, null));
   child.setRight(new BTNode<String>(ANIMAL4, null, null));
   root.setRight(child);

   return root;
  }
 
 
  /**
  * Elicits information from the user to improve a binary taxonomy tree.
  * @param <CODE>current</CODE>
  *   a reference to a leaf node of a binary taxonomy tree
  * <dt><b>Precondition:</b><dd>
  *   <CODE>current</CODE> is a reference to a leaf in a binary
  *   taxonomy tree
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   Information has been elicited from the user, and the tree has
  *   been improved.
  * @exception OutOfMemoryError
  *   Indicates that there is insufficient memory to add new
  *   information to the tree. 
  **/
  public static void learn(BTNode<String> current)
  // Precondition: current is a reference to a leaf in a taxonomy tree. This
  // leaf contains a wrong guess that was just made.
  // Postcondition: Information has been elicited from the user, and the tree
  // has been improved.
  {
   String guessAnimal;   // The animal that was just guessed
   String correctAnimal; // The animal that the user was thinking of
   String newQuestion;   // A question to distinguish the two animals
   
   // Set Strings for the guessed animal, correct animal and a new question.
   guessAnimal = current.getData( );
   System.out.println("I give up. What are you? ");
   correctAnimal = stdin.nextLine( );
   System.out.println("Please type a yes/no question that will distinguish a");
   System.out.println(correctAnimal + " from a " + guessAnimal + ".");
   newQuestion = stdin.nextLine( );
   
   // Put the new question in the current node, and add two new children.
   current.setData(newQuestion);
   System.out.println("As a " + correctAnimal + ", " + newQuestion);
   if (query("Please answer"))
   {
     current.setLeft(new BTNode<String>(correctAnimal, null, null));
     current.setRight(new BTNode<String>(guessAnimal, null, null));
   }
   else
   {
     current.setLeft(new BTNode<String>(guessAnimal, null, null));
     current.setRight(new BTNode<String>(correctAnimal, null, null));
   }         
  }

  public static boolean query(String prompt)
  {
   String answer;
 
   System.out.print(prompt + " [Y or N]: ");
   answer = stdin.nextLine( ).toUpperCase( );
   while (!answer.startsWith("Y") && !answer.startsWith("N"))
   {
  System.out.print("Invalid response. Please type Y or N: ");
  answer = stdin.nextLine( ).toUpperCase( );
   }

   return answer.startsWith("Y");
  }
  
  
  
// File: BTNode.java from the package edu.colorado.nodes
// Complete documentation is available from the BTNode link in:
//   http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/docs/



/******************************************************************************
* A <CODE>BTNode&lt;<E&gt;</CODE> provides a node for a binary tree. Each node 
* contains a piece of data (which is a reference to an E object) and references
* to a left and right child. The references to children may be null to indicate
* that there is no child. The reference stored in a node can also be null.
*
* <dl><dt><b>Limitations:</b> <dd>
*   Beyond <CODE>Int.MAX_VALUE</CODE> elements, <CODE>treeSize</CODE>, is
*   wrong.
*
* <dt><b>Java Source Code for this class:</b><dd>
*   <A HREF="../../../../edu/colorado/nodes/BTNode.java">
*   http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~main/edu/colorado/nodes/BTNode.java </A>
*
* @author Michael Main 
*   <A HREF="mailto:main@colorado.edu"> (main@colorado.edu) </A>
*
* @version
*   Jul 22, 2005
******************************************************************************/
public static class BTNode<E>
{
  // Invariant of the BTNode<E> class:
  //   1. Each node has one reference to an E Object, stored in the instance
  //      variable data.
  //   2. The instance variables left and right are references to the node's
  //      left and right children.
  private E data;
  private BTNode<E> left, right;   

  /**
  * Initialize a <CODE>BTNode</CODE> with a specified initial data and links
  * children. Note that a child link may be the null reference, 
  * which indicates that the new node does not have that child.
  * @param <CODE>initialData</CODE>
  *   the initial data of this new node
  * @param <CODE>initialLeft</CODE>
  *   a reference to the left child of this new node--this reference may be null
  *   to indicate that there is no node after this new node.
  * @param <CODE>initialRight</CODE>
  *   a reference to the right child of this new node--this reference may be null
  *   to indicate that there is no node after this new node.
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   This node contains the specified data and links to its children.
  **/   
  public BTNode(E initialData, BTNode<E> initialLeft, BTNode<E> initialRight)
  {
   data = initialData;
   left = initialLeft;
   right = initialRight;
  }       
  
  
  /**
  * Accessor method to get the data from this node.   
  * @param - none
  * @return
  *   the data from this node
  **/
  public E getData( )   
  {
   return data;
  }
  
  
  /**
  * Accessor method to get a reference to the left child of this node. 
  * @param - none
  * @return
  *   a reference to the left child of this node (or the null reference if there
  *   is no left child)
  **/
  public BTNode<E> getLeft( )
  {
   return left;                                               
  } 
  
  
  /**
  * Accessor method to get the data from the leftmost node of the tree below 
  * this node.
  * @param - none
  * @return
  *   the data from the deepest node that can be reached from this node by
  *   following left links.
  **/
  public E getLeftmostData( )
  {
   if (left == null)
     return data;
   else
     return left.getLeftmostData( );
  }
   
  
  /**
  * Accessor method to get a reference to the right child of this node. 
  * @param - none
  * @return
  *   a reference to the right child of this node (or the null reference if there
  *   is no right child)
  **/
  public BTNode<E> getRight( )
  {
   return right;                                               
  } 


  /**
  * Accessor method to get the data from the rightmost node of the tree below 
  * this node.
  * @param - none
  * @return
  *   the data from the deepest node that can be reached from this node by
  *   following right links.
  **/
  public E getRightmostData( )
  {
   if (left == null)
     return data;
   else
     return left.getRightmostData( );
  }
  
  
  /**
  * Uses an inorder traversal to print the data from each node at or below
  * this node of the binary tree.
  * @param - none
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The data of this node and all its descendants have been writeen by
  *   <CODE>System.out.println( )</CODE> using an inorder traversal.
  **/
  public void inorderPrint( )
  {
   if (left != null)
     left.inorderPrint( );
   System.out.println(data);
   if (right != null)
     right.inorderPrint( );
  }  

  
  /**
  * Accessor method to determine whether a node is a leaf. 
  * @param - none
  * @return
  *   <CODE>true</CODE> (if this node is a leaf) or 
  *   <CODE>false</CODE> (if this node is not a leaf.
  **/
  public boolean isLeaf( )
  {
   return (left == null) && (right == null);                                               
  } 


  /**
  * Uses a preorder traversal to print the data from each node at or below
  * this node of the binary tree.
  * @param - none
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The data of this node and all its descendants have been writeen by
  *   <CODE>System.out.println( )</CODE> using a preorder traversal.
  **/
  public void preorderPrint( )
  {
   System.out.println(data);
   if (left != null)
     left.preorderPrint( );
   if (right != null)
     right.preorderPrint( );
  } 
  
   
  /**
  * Uses a postorder traversal to print the data from each node at or below
  * this node of the binary tree.
  * @param - none
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The data of this node and all its descendants have been writeen by
  *   <CODE>System.out.println( )</CODE> using a postorder traversal.
  **/
  public void postorderPrint( )
  {
   if (left != null)
     left.postorderPrint( );
   if (right != null)
     right.postorderPrint( );
   System.out.println(data);
  }   


  /**
  * Uses an inorder traversal to print the data from each node at or below
  * this node of the binary tree, with indentations to indicate the depth
  * of each node.
  * @param <CODE>depth</CODE>
  *   the depth of this node (with 0 for root, 1 for the root's
  *   children, and so on)(
  * <dt><b>Precondition:</b><dd>
  *   <CODE>depth</CODE> is the depth of this node.
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The data of this node and all its descendants have been writeen by
  *   <CODE>System.out.println( )</CODE> using an inorder traversal.
  *   The indentation of each line of data is four times its depth in the
  *   tree. A dash "--" is printed at any place where a child has no
  *   sibling.
  **/
  public void print(int depth)
  {
   int i;
  
   // Print the indentation and the data from the current node:
   for (i = 1; i <= depth; i++)
     System.out.print("    ");
   System.out.println(data);

   // Print the left subtree (or a dash if there is a right child and no left child)   
   if (left != null)
     left.print(depth+1);
   else if (right != null)
   {
     for (i = 1; i <= depth+1; i++)
      System.out.print("    ");
     System.out.println("--");
   }

   // Print the right subtree (or a dash if there is a left child and no left child)  
   if (right != null)
     right.print(depth+1);
   else if (left != null)
   {
     for (i = 1; i <= depth+1; i++)
      System.out.print("    ");
     System.out.println("--");
   }
  }
  

  /**
  * Remove the leftmost most node of the tree with this node as its root.
  * @param - none
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The tree starting at this node has had its leftmost node removed (i.e.,
  *   the deepest node that can be reached by following left links). The
  *   return value is a reference to the root of the new (smaller) tree.
  *   This return value could be null if the original tree had only one
  *   node (since that one node has now been removed).
  **/
  public BTNode<E> removeLeftmost( )
  {
   if (left == null)
     return right;
   else
   {
     left = left.removeLeftmost( );
     return this;
   }
  }


  /**
  * Remove the rightmost most node of the tree with this node as its root.
  * @param - none
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The tree starting at this node has had its rightmost node removed (i.e.,
  *   the deepest node that can be reached by following right links). The
  *   return value is a reference to the root of the new (smaller) tree.
  *   This return value could be null if the original tree had only one
  *   node (since that one node has now been removed).
  **/
  public BTNode<E> removeRightmost( )
  {
   if (right == null)
     return left;
   else
   {
     right = right.removeRightmost( );
     return this;
   }
  }
    
  /**
  * Modification method to set the data in this node.   
  * @param <CODE>newData</CODE>
  *   the new data to place in this node
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The data of this node has been set to <CODE>newData</CODE>.
  **/
  public void setData(E newData)   
  {
   data = newData;
  }                                                               
  
  
  /**
  * Modification method to set the link to the left child of this node.
  * @param <CODE>newLeft</CODE>
  *   a reference to the node that should appear as the left child of this node
  *  (or the null reference if there is no left child for this node)
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The link to the left child of this node has been set to <CODE>newLeft</CODE>.
  *   Any other node (that used to be the left child) is no longer connected to
  *   this node.
  **/
  public void setLeft(BTNode<E> newLeft)
  {                    
   left = newLeft;
  }
  
  
  /**
  * Modification method to set the link to the right child of this node.
  * @param <CODE>newLeft</CODE>
  *   a reference to the node that should appear as the right child of this node
  *  (or the null reference if there is no right child for this node)
  * <dt><b>Postcondition:</b><dd>
  *   The link to the right child of this node has been set to <CODE>newRight</CODE>.
  *   Any other node (that used to be the right child) is no longer connected to
  *   this node.
  **/
  public void setRight(BTNode<E> newRight)
  {                    
   right = newRight;
  }  
  
  
  /**
  * Copy a binary tree.
  * @param <CODE>source</CODE>
  *   a reference to the root of a binary tree that will be copied (which may be
  *   an empty tree where <CODE>source</CODE> is null)
  * @return
  *   The method has made a copy of the binary tree starting at 
  *   <CODE>source</CODE>. The return value is a reference to the root of the copy. 
  * @exception OutOfMemoryError
  *   Indicates that there is insufficient memory for the new tree.   
  **/ 
  public static <E> BTNode<E> treeCopy(BTNode<E> source)
  {
   BTNode<E> leftCopy, rightCopy;

   if (source == null)
     return null;
   else
   {
     leftCopy = treeCopy(source.left);
     rightCopy = treeCopy(source.right);
     return new BTNode<E>(source.data, leftCopy, rightCopy);
   }
  }
  

  /**
  * Count the number of nodes in a binary tree.
  * @param <CODE>root</CODE>
  *   a reference to the root of a binary tree (which may be
  *   an empty tree where <CODE>source</CODE> is null)
  * @return
  *   the number of nodes in the binary tree  
  * <dt><b>Note:</b><dd>
  *   A wrong answer occurs for trees larger than 
  *   <CODE>INT.MAX_VALUE</CODE>.    
  **/ 
  public static <E> long treeSize(BTNode<E> root)
  {
   if (root == null)
     return 0;
   else
     return 1 + treeSize(root.left) + treeSize(root.right);
  }   

}
      
  

}



 

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