CS1 Standard Demo Page

/*
*Program featuring an array to store and interactively manipulate a list
*of words.
 */
package arraylistplay;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;

/**
 *
 * @authorblue
 */
public class WordList {
// VARIABLES LOCAL TO THE CLASS, AND HENCE GLOBAL TO THE METHODS

    private static ArrayListwords = new ArrayList<>();
    private static int numberOfWords = 0;
    private static Scanner commandReader = new Scanner(System.in);

    /**
     * @param args
     * @paramargsthecommandlinearguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
// ESTABLISH THE ARRAY OF WORDS                            
            readWords();
// CHECK THE DATA  
// ENTER THE INTERPRETER
            interpreter();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException ex) {
            System.out.println("The file was not found. Please think again.");
            System.exit(-1);
        }
    }
// Assuming that the data file will be found in the public_html/data
// subdirectory of the user’s home directory.

    private static Scanner establishScanner(String fn) throws FileNotFoundException {
        String separator = System.getProperty("file.separator");
        String home = System.getProperty("user.home");
        String path = home + separator + "CS1Files" + separator + "data" + separator;
        String WordSet = path + fn;
        return new Scanner(new File(WordSet));
    }

    private static void readWords() throws FileNotFoundException {
        Scanner scanner = establishScanner("WordSet");
        while (scanner.hasNext()) {
            String word = scanner.next();
            words.add(word);
        }
    }

    private static void displayWords() {
        for (String word : words) {
            System.out.println(word);
        }
    }

    private static void interpreter() {
        System.out.print(">>> ");
        String command = commandReader.next();
        if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("DISPLAY")) {
            interpreterDisplayCommand();
        } else if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("PRINT")) {
            interpretPrintCommand();
        } else if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("SWAP")) {
            interpretSwapCommand();
        } else if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("ADD")) {
            interpretAddCommand();
        } else if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("HELP")) {
            interpretHelpCommand();
        } else if (command.equalsIgnoreCase("EXIT")) {
            System.exit(0);
        } else {
            System.out.println("### Unrecognizable command: " + command);
        }
        interpreter();
    }

    private static void interpreterDisplayCommand() {
        displayWords();
    }

    private static void interpretPrintCommand() {
        String operand = commandReader.next();
        if (operand.equalsIgnoreCase("FIRST")) {
            System.out.println(words.get(0));
        } else if (operand.equalsIgnoreCase("LAST")) {
            System.out.println(words.get(words.size()-1));
        } else {
            int index = Integer.valueOf(operand);
            System.out.println(words.get(index-1));
        }
    }

    private static void interpretHelpCommand() {
        System.out.println("HELP - display a menu of commands");
        System.out.println("DISPLAY - display the list of numbers");
        System.out.println("PRINT - print a number (FIRST;LAST;nth)");
        System.out.println("SWAP - exchange two elements (nth;mth)");
        System.out.println("ADD - add a number to the list (FIRST;LAST)");
        System.out.println("EXIT - terminate execution of the program");
    }

    private static void interpretSwapCommand() {
        int position1 = commandReader.nextInt();
        int position2 = commandReader.nextInt();
        //Set not get, change setup 
        String temp = words.get(position1 - 1);
        words.set(position1 - 1, words.get(position2-1));
        words.set(position2 - 1, temp);
    }

    private static void interpretAddCommand() {
        String position = commandReader.next();
        if (position.equalsIgnoreCase("LAST")) {
            addLast();
        } else if (position.equalsIgnoreCase("FIRST")) {
            addFirst();
        } else {
            System.out.println("### invalid operand for add command");
        }
        numberOfWords = numberOfWords + 1;
    }

    private static void addLast() {
     words.add(words.size(), commandReader.next());
    }

    private static void addFirst() {
        words.add(0, commandReader.next());
    }
}