Project # 2 RandomNumber Generator

REQUIREMENTS
Project # 2
Using your aRandomNumber Generator class designed in project #1,
use inheritance to design two new classes. Those classes are to be
called aDie and aCoin. They are to simulate a die and a coin. The die
should produce a random number between 1 and 6 when tossed. The
coin should produce a random number that is 0 for heads and 1 for
tails when flipped.

The aDie class will have a method called roll(). The prototype for
Roll() is: int aDie::roll()

The aCoin class will have a method called flip(). The prototype for
flip() is: int aCoin::flip()
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It is up to you to determine whether those methods should be defined
as const or not.
Your project will also design a histogram class. We will call that class
aHistogram.

For the histogram to know how many bins it might need you will
provide it with a method that specifies the range of expected numbers.
The prototype of this method will be: void setRange(int low,
int high) where low represents the lowest number to be expected and high
represents the highest number to be expected.

Your aRandomNumber Generator class will now have to provide two
methods that will specify the low and high numbers generated by the a
class.

The prototypes for those two methods are:
int aRandomNumberGenerator::getLowNumber()
int aRandomNumberGenerator::getHighNumber()
Again, it is up to you to determine whether those methods should be
defined as const or not.

All classes in the project should have proper constructors and destructors.

Your previous aRandomNumberGenerator class generates a random number
through a method called generate() with prototype:
int aRandomNumberGenerator::generate()
Determine its constness (const or not?)

The aHistogram class should see its range of potential numbers set
through the setRange(int low, int high) method discussed above and
should also update the appropriate bin count through a method called
update() with prototype:
void aHistogram::update(int number) where the argument number represents
the outcome of a call to aRandomNumberGenerator::generate().
The histogram class should also have a display() method to display its information.

The histogram class should also have a clear() method to clear all the
bins
void aHistogram::clear();

In your main program, you will create one die and one coin. You will
ask the user how many times s/he wishes to roll the die and how
many times s/he will flip the coin.
With that information in hand you will roll the die and flip the coin
the appropriate number of times and then use two separate histogram
objects to display the histograms of the die rolls and coin flips.

The graphical display of the histograms will be as you did in project #1
The histogram display should show the count for each possible outcome and then
a graph in the form of lines of ‘x’.

For example, assuming 1000 flips, the histogram for the die should look something like this:

Heads: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx….xx (490)
Tails : xxxxxxxxxxxxxx…xx (510)
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Meaning that Heads appeared 490 times and Tails appeared 510 times
(your mileage may vary)
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Please note that this histogram does not use
1,2,...6 as it does
for the die, but instead uses the full terms HEAD and
TAIL
Again, in the histogram displays ‘x’ represents some number of occurrences
of a particular face or coin side. Since you are likely to get 100’s of occurrences of a face or coin side, you will not be able to use
one x for one occurrence. Therefore you will have to scale your x to
represent some number of occurrences for each of the histogram.
The recommendation made for project #1 was that you find out for the
die and for the coin what the largest count was and then divide that
count by 50 (or something like that) so that each of the largest bin count
would be represented by a line of 50 x’s where each x would represent
1/50 th of the largest bin count.
This leads to the suggestion that your aHistogra
m class should provide
a method called count(int randomNumber) with prototype:
int aHistogram::count(int randomNumber)
Again, you decide on the constness of this method.
This method would return the number of occurrences of a particular
random number. Of course this would mean that you must make sure that given a request for the number of occurrences of a particular
number, you will have to make sure that you return the count for the
appropriate bin. In other words, the bin whose count you will return is
not necessarily the bin whose index is the random number you passed
as an argument.
Finally, since some of you seemed to have made that mistake, you
need to seed the random number ONLY ONCE!
This means that you should have main ask the user
to provide a seed. In this way, you can always repeat a simulation run should something go wrong. This will also allow the T.A. to test your application under different conditions.

Guidelines:
You will need to make sure to use data hiding principles. Make sure
you use Public, Protected and Private access rights appropriately.
Not using data hiding principles will result in a 10% penalty
Make sure each class is declared and defined in separate header and
source files.
Not defining classes in separate files will result in a 50% penalty.
Make sure you have appropriate constructors and destructors.
Not having the appropriate constructors will result in a 10% penalty
Do not use a switch statement to update the counts in the histogram!
Using a switch statement in the updating method of your histogram
will result in a 30% penalty.
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You will need to make sure you have selected the appropriate
constness for your methods. Not using the correct const attributes will
cost you 10% in penalty.

You MUST use inheritance in designing the aDie and aCoin classes. If
you do not use inheritance you will automatically receive a grade of 0.

Your code MUST compile! If your code doesn’t compile you will
automatically receive a grade of 0.

Your executable MUST run. If not, you will automatically receive a
grade of 0.

If your code doesn’t display the histogram and counts appropriately
you will suffer a penalty of at least 50% depending on the cause of the
error.

You will submit your project through the digital drop box feature of
blackboard.

You will clean (Build - Clean) the project (to minimize its size) , zip your project and submit the zipped file. Please name your zip file by lastname1_lastname2_2.zip for each group.
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Each group only needs to submit one project file.

If you have any questions, please ask them!