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public int computeSum() {

int sum = 0 ;
for (Coin c : coins) {

if (! c . isHeads () ) {
sum = sum + c . getValue() ;

}
return sum ;

}

public String toString() {

String result = "" ;
for (Coin c : coins) {
result = result+c+ "" ;
result = result + " Total: " + computeSum() ;
return result ;

}

}

The empty constructor is included because of the cardinal rule: “If you specify any
constructors, it is always a good idea to include an empty constructor”. If the empty con-
structor is omitted, then existing code that calls the empty default constructor will no longer
compile. The first non-empty constructor generated the number of default coins that are
requested. Note that the value and the face of the coin is chosen randomly inside the Coin
class. The second non-empty constructor takes as input an ArrayList of currency values,
creates the coins, and populates the coins ArrayList . Note that, as expected, new is called
multiple times in both constructors. It is called once to create the ArrayList and then once
for each element of the ArrayList . Note as well the elegancy of the for-each for statement
in the second non-empty constructor. Since we only want to iterate through the ArrayList
without modifying it, we can use this template.
While the flipAllCoins method flips all coins, the flipSomeCoins method only flips
the input coins. Recall that if a is an ArrayList , a.get(i) will return the i th element of
the list. The computeSum method sums the value of all the coins that are tails. Similarly,
the toString method creates a string from all the coins and their sum. The design looks
very elegant. Every method is self-explanatory.
Finally, let us consider the CoinGame class that implements the game.
import java . util . ;

public class CoinGame

∗

{

public static final int NUMBER FLIPS=2 ;

public static void main(String [] args) {
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System. in) ;
ArrayList < Currency > currency = new ArrayList <> () ;
System. out . println (change) ;
for ( int i=0;i < NUMBER FLIPS ; i ++) {
System. out . print ( "Which coins do you want to flip: " );
change . flipSomeCoins ( convert (keyboard . nextLine () )) ;
System. out . println (change) ;

}

}

static ArrayList < Integer > convert(String s) {
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(s) ;