Specific classes for this:

Much like StringHelper in the previous lab, there are a few helper classes in the Autograder.

class HangmanDictionary :

Constructor: HangmanDictionary$()$

Methods:

public int getNumberOfAvailableWords$()-$ this returns the number of words in this dictionary

public String getWord$($int wordIndex$)-$ this returns a particular word in the dictionary; valid indexes start at $0($inclusive$)$ and go up to the number of available

words $($exclusive$)$

class HangmanDisplay :

Constructor: HangmanDisplay$()$

Methods:

public void displayHangman$($int numGuessesLeft$)-$ this draws an ascii art representation of the hangman game when there are numGuessesLeft guesses

remaining $($the game ends when this value is $0)$

public void displayWordToGuess$($String wordToDisplay, String previouslyGuessedCharacters$)-$ this displays the words involved in an in$-$progress

hangman game; wordToDisplay is the current $($partially guessed$)$ word the player is guessing, and previouslyGuessedCharacters are all the letters that the player has

tried so far

public char getLetter$()-$ this prompts the user for a single character and returns it$.$ Error handling for multiple, missing, or non$-$letter characters is handled

internally and will not throw an exception, although the result may be upper or lower case depending on what the user entered.

public void showEndGameMessage$($String resultMessage$)-$ displays a win$/$loss message to the player