A left rotation operation on an array of n size shifts each of the
array's elements 1 unit to the left. For example, if 2 left rotations
are performed on array [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], then the array would become [3, 4,
5, 1, 2].
Similarly, a right rotation operation on an array of n size shifts each
of the array's elements 1 unit to the right. For example if 2 right
rotations are performed on array [1, 2, 3, 4, 5], then the array would become
[4, 5, 1, 2, 3].
Given an array of n integers, a number r, and a direction d (e.g
L or R), perform r rotations on the n integers in the d
direction and output the result as described below.
This problem is based on the Left Rotation challenge on HackerRank.
The intent is to challenge you to leverage a Sequence Container from CS202, such as the STL's std::vector, and its corresponding functionalities.
You will be given a series of inputs from standard input.
Each input array will consist of two lines:
The first line consists of the n number of values, r number of
rotations, and d rotational direction (L for left rotation and R
for right rotation).
The second line consists of the n elements in the array.
For each input array, you are to perform the specified r rotations in the d direction and print all the resulting array such that the elements are separated by spaces and the last element is followed by a newline character.
Given the following input:
5 4 L 1 2 3 4 5 5 4 R 1 2 3 4 5
Your program should output the following:
5 1 2 3 4 2 3 4 5 1
We will test your code using the following rubric:
+4 Code is well formatted, commented (inc. name, assignment, and overview), with reasonable variable names +3 No issues reported by valgrind on second test applied +18 Test cases successfully solved (1.5 points each)
HINT: The optimal solution for this challenge only uses a single for loop, and therefore is O(n). The key observation is not to perform r rotations, but rather think about the "offset," i.e., where a given element will be after the r rotations. Right rotations are a bit easier even though the test cases start with simple left rotations.
To faciliate testing please clone the Github repository for this semester as follows:
git clone https://github.com/semrich/cs302-fall24.git cs302
Note that you will only have to initialize this repo once. You can update it throughout the semester by using:
git pull
We'll discuss this in class but note that your program must be named "solution.cpp" and compilable using make. To test your solution against ours, type:
make test
To submit your solution, you must submit your solution.cpp a single archive on Canvas prior to the deadline.
Note: Although submission will be faciliated by Canvas, we will compile and test on EECS
lab machines!
You will receive a zero if it does not work/compile on hydra/tesla
Therefore, if you develop your solution elsewhere please make sure it works on the lab
computers prior to the deadline.