Eric Hartway
1/22/07
Section - 3




Lab: Experimenting with Input/Output



3.3. What was the first error generated by the compiler?
	- first error is "can not find symbol" for the PrintWriter.



3.4. What line did you need to add?
	-needed to add an import statment for IO.



3.6. What was the first error generated by the compiler this time?
  - can not find symbol for Scanner object. 



3.7.  Fix this error.  What line did you need to add?
 - needed to import java.util.Scanner.



4.4. Why was no output generated?
 - the buffer was not told be be emptyed and so it sat there.



4.5. Fix this mistake.  What line did you add?
 - needed to add a flush method to force the buffer to get rid of its
   contents.



4.6. What do you need to type in the terminal window (as a response to
the prompt) in order to make this application terminate normally?
 - needed to type ctrl, z to stop it normally.



5.4. What output was generated?
 - the birthdays of the men for todays date was generated form the txt file.
          


5.6. What happened and why?
 - did not work because there was no aniversery file for input into the program.

          

5.8 What changes did you need to make?
 - added "File dates;" to the code.

          

5.10. What changes did you need to make?
 - needed to add  "dates = new File(args[0]);".



5.12. What changes did you need to make?
 - neede to pass dates as an argument for the new data scanner.


          
5.14. What output was generated?
 - the same output was generated as in question 5.4.

          

6.2. What changes did you need to make?
 - put a for loop to repeat for as many files as have been inputed.


          
6.4. What output was generated?
 - the output for the two files inputed where printed out.

   Today's Date: 22 January 2007
        Birthday: Sir Francis Bacon
        Birthday: George Foreman

   Today's Date: 22 January 2007
        Programming Assignment 1 Due
        Review the Java tutorial on Exceptions