ICSE JAVA PROGRAMS 2019: SECTION B QUESTION 8 SOLVED

 

ICSE JAVA PROGRAMS 2019: SECTION B QUESTION 8

Programming for school students ( upper to middle/secondary school)

Write a program to input s sentence and convert it into uppercase and display the total number of words starting with letter 'A'.

Example:

INPUT: Advancement and application of Information Technology are ever changing.

OUTPUT: ADVANCEMENT AND APPLICATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ARE EVER CHANGING.

Number of word(s)starting with A is/are: 4

JAVA CODE

import java.util.Scanner;

public class ISCJava{

       public static void main(String[] args) {

       String sentence;

       int counterStartingA = 0;

       Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);

       System.out.println("Enter your sentence:");

       sentence = in.nextLine();

       System.out.println();

       System.out.println("OUTPUT:");

       System.out.println("ORIGINAL STATEMENT:");

       System.out.println(sentence);

       System.out.println();

       System.out.println("AFTER CHANGING TO UPPER CASE:");

       for(int i =0; i< sentence.length();i++) {

              char c = sentence.charAt(i);

              if(c >= 'a' && c <= 'z') {

                     c -= 32;

                     System.out.print(c);

              }

              else

              System.out.print(c);   

       }

       //counting number of words staring with A

       System.out.println();

       for(int i =0; i< sentence.length(); i++) 

              if (sentence.charAt(i) == 'A' || sentence.charAt(i) == 'a') {

                     if(i==0)

                            counterStartingA++; 

                     else if(sentence.charAt(i-1) == ' ')

                            counterStartingA++;

              }

       System.out.println("Number of word(s)starting with A is/are: "+counterStartingA);

       in.close();

       }

}

PYTHON CODE

counterStartingA = 0

sentence = str(input("Enter the sentence: "))

print("OUTPUT:")

print("ORIGINAL STATEMENT:")

print(sentence)

print("AFTER CHANGING TO UPPER CASE:")

for i in range(len(sentence)):

    c = (sentence[i])

    if (c >= 'a' and c <= 'z'):

        t = ord(c) -32

        print(chr(t),end="")

    else:

        print(c,end="")

for i in range(len(sentence)):

    if sentence[i] == 'A' or sentence[i] == 'a':

        if i == 0:

            counterStartingA +=1

        elif sentence[i-1] == ' ':

            counterStartingA +=1

print()

print("Number of word(s)starting with A is/are:",counterStartingA)