Class BoggleBoard

java.lang.Object
  BoggleBoard

public class BoggleBoard
extends java.lang.Object

Represent a Boggle Board to play a game of Boggle.

Version:

March, 2006

Author:

Owen Astrachan

Constructor Summary

BoggleBoard(java.lang.String[] faces)
Create a square boggle board from an array of Strings/Cube faces.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getFace(int row, int col) Return the cube face at specified location, this will be a one-character string, presumably, or "Qu" for a Q-cube.
int	size() Returns dimension of a square board, e.g., 4 or 5 for Boggle or Big Boggle, respectively.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BoggleBoard

public BoggleBoard(java.lang.String[] faces)

Create a square boggle board from an array of Strings/Cube faces. The array should contain sizexsize entries, e.g., 16 for a 4x4 Boggle game.

Parameters:

faces - is row-major order of cubes used in the board for Boggle

Method Detail

size

public int size()

Returns dimension of a square board, e.g., 4 or 5 for Boggle or Big Boggle, respectively.

Returns:

size of board

getFace

public java.lang.String getFace(int row,
                                int col)

Return the cube face at specified location, this will be a one-character string, presumably, or "Qu" for a Q-cube.

Parameters:

row - is row of cube whose face is returned

col - is column of cube whose face is returned

Returns:

String/face of specified cube

Throws:

java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException - if cube location isn't valid