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Hi, i've got an assignment that asks me to do these, but i cant seem to get around in solving it. Any help will be much appreciated. TYVM!
Create a class called TVProgram that can store some important details of a television program:
- name of the show
- the channel the show is on
- the start time (in 24-hour format)
- the end time (in 24-hour format)
Write a program that uses this class.
Your program will read a list of TV programs, making up a schedule for an evening's TV: for you convenience, you will be able to download a sample file listing. The listing will consist of one line for each of the above fields, in the above order, for each program, followed by a line containing only the "#" character. For example, here is the start of such a file.
At the Movies
ABC
1800
1830
The Einstein Factor
ABC
1830
1900
Your program should start with a little menu to prompt whether to read from standard input or a file:
Please choose a number for the way you will input the TV schedule:
1. Read from standard input
2. Input from a file
Your program should first read the complete schedule, then loop through all the programs in the schedule and prompt the user as to whether they want to record the program or not. For example, the program should print:
At the Movies is showing on ABC from 1800 to 18.30.
Do you want to record it: type Y or N.
If the user types Y then the program sets this T Vprogram to be recorded. If the user types N, the program goes to the next entry and prompts the user again. If the user types something other than a Y or N (or y or n), then the program should prompt for a proper answer:
Do you want to record it: type Y or N.
Once the complete schedule has been shown to the user, the program loops through those that the user has said they want to record and checks for any clashes---i.e. any times at which the user wants to record two programs at the same time. For any clashes, your program should show these to the user and insist that only one be selected for being recorded. For example:
At 1830 you want to record both 1. The Einstein Factor on ABC and 2. The Biggest Loser on Ten.
Please pick option 1 or 2 to record.
Again, if the user selects an option other than 1 or 2 in the above, then the program should make the user to make another selection until they type a legal value.
If the schedule is in time-start order (see "Assumptions" below), then a simple way to check for clashes is:
- as you loop through the schedule of shows, keep track of the latest end-time the user wants to record;
- if any program the user says they want to record has a start-time before this latest end-time, then this is a clash.
There are different ways to keep track of clashes: you can keep an array (a list of clashes) of arrays (each of these is the list of clashing programs); you could create a Clash class.
Finally, after going through all clashes, print out the list of programs that the user still wants recorded.
Here is the list of programs that will be recorded for you:
From 1830 to 1930, The Biggest Loser, on Ten.
From 1930 to 2030, Who Do You Think You Are, on SBS
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Answer 1

* @(#)TVProgram.java
* @author      Okky Satya
* @version 1.00 2008/3/29
import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
public class TVProgram {
     private String name;
     private String chnl;
     private int strt;
     private int ends;
     public TVProgram(String showName, String channel, int start, int end ){
          this.name = showName;
          this.chnl = channel;
          this.strt = start;
          this.ends = end;
    public static void readFileInput() {
    List prog = new ArrayList();
    Scanner inputFile = null;
     try
    inputFile = new Scanner(new File("tv_schedule"));
     catch (FileNotFoundException fe)
    System.out.println("File not found!");
    System.exit(0);
    while(inputFile.hasNext()== true){
         while (inputFile.nextLine()!="##")
              new TVProgram;
    public static void readInput(){
    public static void loopInput(){
    public static void showList(){
    public static void checkUserList(){
    public static void main(String[] args){
         int menuChoice = 0;
         System.out.println("Please choose a number for the way you will input the TV schedule:\n  1. Read from standard input\n  2. Input from a file");
         switch(menuChoice){
              case 1:
                   readInput();
                   break;
              case 2:
                   readFileInput();
                   break;
         loopInput();
         checkUserList();
         showList();
}