Exercise 1

At this point, we’ve covered enough material to build a simple program. So, let’s see if we can complete the following example program before continuing.

Problem Statement

Write a program that reads an integer from either the terminal, or a file if one is provided as a command-line argument. It should not worry about handling any exceptions encountered.

The program should compute and print the sum of all integers from 1 up to and including the integer provided as input, except those integers which are evenly divisible by 3. If the provided input is not a positive integer, the program should simply print 0.

Skeleton Code

Since we haven’t covered how to handle input yet, we can use the following skeleton code to help us build our program.

This code will create a Scanner variable called reader, and initialize it to either read from file provided as a command-line argument, or from the terminal if an argument is not provided. It will then read a single integer from the input, storing it in the variable x.

To complete this exercise, we can continue to write this program where the MORE CODE GOES HERE comment is in the skeleton code.

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