CAP5605-Project1 Solved

Requirements: 

1. Create a class named State that will store information about a US state and provide methods to get, and set the data, and compare the states. 

a.                   Data attributes: State Name, Capital City, State Abbreviation, State Population, 

Region, US House Seats 

b.                   Initializer (__init__) 

c.                   Getter and setter methods for each field 

d.                   __gt__ method so that two State objects can be compared based on state names 

e.                   __str__ method so that a state object can be printed like a string 2. Create a program that will: 

a.       Read a file (csv) of states and create a list of state objects containing that data. 

b.      Offer the user the following options: 

1)      Print a state report 

2)      Sort by state name (using Quick Sort) 

3)      Sort by population (using Radix sort)  

4)      Find and print a given state (using binary search if the data is sorted by state name, sequential search if not) 

5)      Quit 

c.       Implement the given option, then prompt again. (deal with invalid choice) 

Your program should have functions for options 1-5. 

d.      The State report in option 1 should be in this form: 

State Name    Capital City  State Abbr  State Population  Region            US House Seats 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

Florida       Tallahassee       FL        19,552,860      South               27 

Pennsylvania  Harrisburg        PA        12,773,801      Middle Atlantic     18 Massachusetts Boston            MA         6,692,824      New England          9 

 

e.       The State report in option 5 should be in this form: 

State Name:        Florida 

Capital City:      Tallahassee 

State Abbr:        FL 

State Population:  19,552,860 

Region:            South 

US House Seats:    27 

 

Provide docstring comments: 

 

Comments for a module (must be at the top): 

””” Detailed description of the module. 

 

Author: <your name> 

Version: <date you last changed the class> 

Email: <your UNF email> 

””” 

Comments for a function definition (must be the first thing inside the function): 

””” 

Description of the purpose of the function, the meaning of the  input parameters (if any) and the meaning of the return values 

(if any). 

:param  parameter  description of the parameter (one for each) 

:return description of the return value 

:raise exceptions that may be raised in this function 

””” 

Comments for a class definition (must be the first thing inside the class) 

 

””” Detailed description of the class. 

””” 

Example Ouput: 

 

CAP4640/5605 Project 1 

Instructor: Xudong Liu 

 

Enter the file name: States.csv 

 

There were 50 state records read. 
 

1.  Print a state report 

2.  Sort by State name  

3.  Sort by Population  

4.  Find and print a given state  

5.  Quit 

Enter your choice: 1 

 

State Name    Capital City  State Abbr  State Population  Region            US House Seats 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

Louisiana     Baton Rouge      LA       4,625,470         South                6 

Wisconsin     Madison          WI       5,742,713         Midwest              8 New Mexico    Santa Fe         NM       2,085,287         Southwest            3 . . . 

 

1.  Print a state report 

2.  Sort by State name  

3.  Sort by Population  

4.  Find and print a given state  

5.  Quit 

Enter your choice: 3 
 

States sorted by Population. 
 

1.  Print a state report 

2.  Sort by State name  

3.  Sort by Population  

4.  Find and print a given state  

5.  Quit 

Enter your choice: 1 

 

State Name    Capital City  State Abbr  State Population  Region            US House Seats 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

Wyoming       Cheyenne         WY       582,658           West                 1 

Vermont       Montpelier       VT       626,630           New England          1 North Dakota  Bismarck         ND       723,393           Midwest              1 . . . 

 

1.  Print a state report 

2.  Sort by State name  

3.  Sort by Population  

4.  Find and print a given state  

5.  Quit 

Enter your choice: 4 

 

Enter the state name: Florida 

Sequential search 

 

State Name:        Florida 

Capital City:      Tallahassee 

State Abbr:        FL 

State Population:  19,552,860 

Region:            South 

US House Seats:    27 
 

1.  Print a state report 

2.  Sort by State name  

3.  Sort by Population  

4.  Find and print a given state  

5.  Quit 

Enter your choice: 4 

 

Enter the state name: Canada 

Sequential search 

 

Error: State Canada not found 

 

1.  Print a state report 

2.  Sort by State name  

3.  Sort by Population  

4.  Find and print a given state  

5.  Quit 

Enter your choice: 2 

 

States sorted by State name. 

 

1.  Print a state report 

2.  Sort by State name  

3.  Sort by Population  

4.  Find and print a given state  

5.  Quit 

Enter your choice: 1 

 

State Name    Capital City  State Abbr  State Population  Region            US House Seats 

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 

Alabama       Montgomery       AL       4,833,722         South                7 

Alaska        Juno             AK       735,132           West                 1 Arizona       Phoenix          AZ       6,626,624         Southwest            9 . . . 
 

 

1.  Print a state report 

2.  Sort by State name  

3.  Sort by Population  

4.  Find and print a given state  

5.  Quit 

Enter your choice: 4 

 

Enter the state name: Kentucky 

Binary search 

 

State Name:        Kentucky 

Capital City:      Frankfort 

State Abbr:        KY 

State Population:  4,395,295 

Region:            South 

US House Seats:    6 

  

1.  Print a state report 

2.  Sort by State name  

3.  Sort by Population  

4.  Find and print a given state  5. Quit 

Enter your choice: 23 

Invalid choice enter 1-5: 0 

Invalid choice enter 1-5: A 

Invalid choice enter 1-5: 5  

Have a good day!