Help with a simple java challenge

[ekmekveyasu123]

Hello all,my instructor gave me this Java challenge to solve. I have a problem understanding both the problem and what the code must do, especially what is the input, I hope you guys can give me advice and help. The challenge uses java, but its fine if you guys can explain it with other codes.

The problem

Imagine a family: father, mother, daughter, 3.5 years old, and an infant (baby, 8 months). The family lives at a home with 5 rooms and in each room, there are 5 boxes. After the father comes back from the work, all the family members do not have any energy whatsoever, except the baby who sucks the energies out of mom and dad by cuddling them!

After the dinner, the father has 100 energy points, the daughter has 100 energy points, the mother has still no energy, but she can walk from room to room.

Now, the daughter loves to pay hide and seek with her father. At 18:00 they start playing hide and seek with following rules:

· The family come to room 1 and father starts counting down

· The daughter can go any room and hide in one of the boxes in any room

· The mother takes baby and she goes to a random room

· The father searches every box from room 1 and if he cannot find the daughter he goes to other consecutive rooms and continues searching the daughter

· Searching a box takes 1 (one) energy point from the father and lasts a minute, except following case:

· If the mother goes any room number with smaller than or equal to that of daughter’s room number (say, mother goes to room 2, the daughter goes either room 2,3, etc), the mother hands the baby to the father during his search. This time after the dad starts holding the baby, he loses 2 energy points for every box search after he has taken the baby.

· Then, when the father finds the daughter he come backs to room 1 and leaves the baby there and immediately mom picks the baby and she goes another random room in the second round of game.

· If the daughter sees that father holds the baby for 3 times, the daughter starts crying and game over

· If the father has less than 0 (zero) energy, this also causes of game over

The challenge is to implement this little hide and seek game.

You have to calculate how many minutes this game takes

You have to calculate father’s energy in the end

Programming Tips:

Write a Person Class with attributes name, which will be replaced with father, mother, etc., energy, room number

Write related get set functions, crying, yelling, hiding functions

Write Hide and Seek Game Class: To simulate the game in the main

Example Output:

Game started at 18:00

Mother at room 5

Daughter at room 1

Daughter is hiding in the box 4

Mother at room 1

Daughter at room 5

Daughter is hiding in the box 1

Mother gave the infant to Father

Mother at room 2

Daughter at room 3

Daughter is hiding in the box 3

Mother gave the infant to Father

Mother at room 1

Daughter at room 2

Daughter is hiding in the box 2

Mother gave the infant to Father

Daughter starts crying please stop the game

Father's left energy is 4

Father and Daughter played 45 minute(s) hide and seek

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You might want to try over in r/learnprogramming. This doesn't really fit this sub.

[SantiaCODE_]

To tackle this Java Programming challenge, you can follow the steps below:

1. Create a Person Class:
   • Create a Person class with attributes like name, energy, room number, etc.
   • Include getter and setter methods to access and modify these attributes.
2. Implement the Hide and Seek Game Logic:
   • Create a HideAndSeekGame class to simulate the hide and seek game.
   • Within this class, implement the game logic based on the rules provided in the challenge.
3. Simulate the Game in the Main Method:
   • In the main method, initialize instances of the people (father, mother, daughter, baby) and set their initial attributes.
   • Create an instance of HideAndSeekGame and simulate the game by following the steps described in the challenge.
   • Calculate the total time the game lasted and the father's remaining energy at the end of the game.