incorporated SoundEx to GuessRealGame and some cleanup work

Author: BoxHen

.idea/workspace.xml

@@ -6,15 +6,25 @@
 import java.io.*;
 
 public class Game {
+
+/*---------------------printAlpha variables----------------------*/
     private char[] alpha;
+
+/*-------------------randomAlphabet variables----------------------*/
     private char randAlpha;
-    private char[] upperAndLower;
-    private long elapsedTime;
+
+/*---------------------randWord variables-------------------------*/
     private String[] randomStrings;
+
+/*---------------------readFile variables-------------------------*/
     private String randomStringWord;
+
+/*--------------------userInput variables------------------------*/
     private String strUpper;
     private String strLower;
-
+    private char[] upperAndLower;
+    private long elapsedTime;
+/*-----------------------------methods--------------------------------*/
     public void readyGame(){ // wait for user to press key to start
         System.out.println("Press the Enter key to start the game");
         try
@@ -63,7 +73,7 @@ public void randomWord(int numberOfWords, char array[])
 
     public void readFile(){
         Random random = new Random();
-        try{ // might not be needed delim
+        try{
             BufferedReader inFile1 = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("Dictionary.txt"));
             List<String> temps = new ArrayList<String>();
 

out/production/Phonetic Game/Game.class

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ public void WordGuessGib(int numGames){
                 System.out.println("TOO SLOW!!! You answered in: " + elapsedTime / 1000 + " seconds\n");
                 } else if (strLower.equals(randWord[0]) || strUpper.equals(randWord[0])) {
                 // NOTE: have to use .equals instead of  == since == will see if it refers to the same object and not the same value
+                // double equals basically checks to see if the two Objects are the same reference
                 System.out.println("CORRECT! You answered in: " + elapsedTime / 1000 + " seconds\n");
             } else {
                 System.out.println("WRONG! The correct choice is: " + randWord[0] + "\n");

out/production/Phonetic Game/GuessGibberishWord.class

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ public void letterGame(int numGames)
             elapsedTime = phoneticGame.getElapsedTime();
             if (elapsedTime >= 3000) { // waits for specified time in ms (1000ms = 1s)
                 System.out.println("TOO SLOW!!! You answered in: " + elapsedTime / 1000 + " seconds\n");
-            } else if (upperAndLower[0] == randAlpha || upperAndLower[1] == randAlpha) {
+            } else if (upperAndLower[0] == randAlpha || upperAndLower[1] == randAlpha) { // this works but to be safe .equals would be better
                 System.out.println("CORRECT! You answered in: " + elapsedTime / 1000 + " seconds\n");
             } else {
                 System.out.println("WRONG! The correct choice is: " + randAlpha + "\n");

out/production/Phonetic Game/GuessRealWord.class

@@ -25,9 +25,16 @@ public void WordGuessReal(int numGames){
                 // NOTE: have to use .equals instead of  == since == will see if it refers to the same object and not the same value
                 System.out.println("CORRECT! You answered in: " + elapsedTime / 1000 + " seconds\n");
             } else {
-                LevenshteinDistance correction = new LevenshteinDistance();
+                LevenshteinDistance correction = new LevenshteinDistance(); SoundEx correctionImproved = new SoundEx();
+
                 correction.LD(strLower, randWord);
-                if(correction.getFinalCost() <= 1){ // if you are one letter off
+                correctionImproved.Encode(strLower);
+                String c1 = correctionImproved.getCode();
+
+                correctionImproved.Encode(randWord);
+                String c2 = correctionImproved.getCode();
+
+                if(correction.getFinalCost() <= 1 || c1.equals(c2)){ // if you are one letter off
                     System.out.println("Did you mean: " + randWord + "\n");
                 }else{
                     System.out.println("WRONG! \n");

out/production/Phonetic Game/Main.class

@@ -8,14 +8,13 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
 //        GuessGibberishWord game2 = new GuessGibberishWord();
 //        game2.WordGuessGib(5);
 /*------------------------------runs real word guessing game----------------------------------*/
-//        GuessRealWord game3 = new GuessRealWord();
-//        game3.WordGuessReal(2);
-        SoundEx test = new SoundEx();
-        test.Encode("Lee");
-        System.out.println(test.getCode());
-
-
-
+        GuessRealWord game3 = new GuessRealWord();
+        game3.WordGuessReal(2);
+/*------------------------------tests SoundEx Encoding----------------------------------*/
+//        SoundEx test = new SoundEx();
+//        test.Encode("Lee");
+//        System.out.println(test.getCode());
+        
     } // end main
 
 } // end main class