Assignment #99 and Fill-In Functions

Code

    /// Name: Brendan Baird
    /// Period: 6
    /// Program Name: Fill-In Functions
    /// File Name: FillInFunctions.java
    /// Date Finished: 1/7/2016
    
    // Fill-In Functions - Fix the broken functions and function calls.

    public class FillInFunctions
    {
    	public static void main( String[] args )
    	{
    		// Fill in the function calls where appropriate.
    
    		System.out.println("Watch as we demonstrate functions.");
    
    		System.out.println();
    		System.out.println("I'm going to get a random character from A-Z");
    		System.out.println("The character is: " + randChar() );
    
    		System.out.println();
    		System.out.println("Now let's count from -10 to 10");
    		int begin, end;
    		begin = -10;
    		end = 10;
    		counter( begin, end );
    		System.out.println("How was that?");
    
    		System.out.println();
    		System.out.println("Now we take the absolute value of a number.");
    		int x, y = 99;
    		x = -10;
    		System.out.println("|" + x + "| = " + abso(x) );
    
    		System.out.println();
    		System.out.println("That's all.  This program has been brought to you by:");
    		credits();
    	}
    
    
    	public static void credits()
    	// No parameters.
    	{
    		// displays some boilerplate text saying who wrote this program, etc.
    
    		System.out.println();
    		System.out.println("programmed by Graham Mitchell");
    		System.out.println("modified by Brendan Baird");
    		System.out.print("This code is distributed under the terms of the standard ");
    		System.out.println("BSD license.  Do with it as you wish.");
    	}
    
    
    
    
    	public static char randChar()
    	// No parameters.
    	{
    		// chooses a random character in the range "A" to "Z"
    		
    		int numval;
    		char charval;
    
    		// pick a random number from 0 to 25
    		numval = (int)(Math.random()*26);
    		// now add that offset to the value of the letter 'A'
    		charval = (char) ('A' + numval);
    
    		return charval;
    	}
    
    
    
    
    	public static int counter( int start, int stop )
    	// Parameters are:
    	//     int start;
    	//     int stop;
    	{
    		// counts from start to stop by ones
    		int ctr;
    
    		ctr = start;
    		while ( ctr <= stop )
    		{
    			System.out.print(ctr + " ");
    			ctr = ctr+1;
    		}
    
    		return ctr;
    	}
    
    
    
    
    	public static int abso( int value )
    	// Parameters are:
    	//     int value;
    	{
    		// finds the absolute value of the parameter
    		int absval;
    
    		if ( value < 0 )
    			absval = -value;
    		else
    			absval = value;
    
    		return absval;
    	}
    
    
    }
    

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Assignment 99