PowerBall Code - for gameplay only

Although I should be writing code to make turtles dance (it's an assignment), I couldn't help but respond to an email from an online Java tutorial that I use. The sample code in the email was about generating unique random numbers for a lottery. It struck me that I have just enough programming skill to modify that tutorial into something useful for me - generate the winning powerball number!!!!

Here's the code - good luck!

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 *Create an arraylist of lottery numbers, sort, and pick the winning numbers
 *
 * 
 * via About.com Java
 */
public class Lottery
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        //define ArrayList to hold Integer objects
        //game uses 1 - 59 for 1st 5 numbers
        ArrayList<Integer> numbers = new ArrayList<Integer>();

        for(int i=0; i<59; i++)
        {
            numbers.add(i + 1);
        }

        //define ArrayList to hold Integer objects
        //game uses 1 - 39 for powerball number
        ArrayList<Integer> powerball = new ArrayList<Integer>();

        for(int i=0; i<39; i++)
        {
            powerball.add(i+1);
        }

        //shuffle numbers and powerballs
        Collections.shuffle(numbers);
        Collections.shuffle(powerball);

        //import numbers into a list and extract 1st 5 numbers
        //then sort in ascending order
        List <Integer> sorted = numbers.subList(0,5);
        Collections.sort(sorted);       

        System.out.println("");
        System.out.print("The winning numbers are: ");

        //now pull the sorted numbers out and print
        for (int j=0; j<5; j++)
        {
            System.out.print(sorted.get(j) + " ");
        }

       

        System.out.print(" and the powerball is: ");

        //After shuffling, get the first powerball number
        for (int k=0; k<1; k++)
        {
            System.out.print(powerball.get(k) + " ");
        }   
    }   
}

Comments

[bmuller]

Couldn't resist throwing this together in Python:

import random
choices = [random.choice(range(1,60)) for i in xrange(5)]
choices.sort()
rchoices = " ".join(map(lambda x: str(x), choices))
print "The winning numbers are: %s" % rchoices
print " and the powerball is: %i" % random.choice(range(1,40))

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