a wordsearch program in Java. Select your number of words and hide them in a grid

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ajavaProje17_.idea_modules.xml

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ajavaProje17_ajavaProje17.iml

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ajavaProje17_javaPro17.java

/*import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.ArrayList;

public class WordSearchPuzzle {
	private char[][] puzzle ;
	private List<String> puzzleWords ;
        puzzleWords = new List<String>( Arrays.aslist( "this", "that","these",
                                                           "those", "i", "you", 
                                                           "them","us","it","is",
                                                           "on", "off", "up",
                                                           "down", "whatever"));

  // can use basicEnglish.txt as an example
    private int wordCount ;


public class WordSearchPuzzle {
    private ArrayList<String> index;
    private ArrayList<String> exceptions;
    public WordSearchPuzzle () {
        index = new ArrayList<String>();
    }

   public boolean add(String word)  {






	public WordSearchPuzzle(List<String> userSpecifiedWords) {
		// puzzle generation using user specified words
            // The user passes in a list of words to be used
            // for generating the word search grid.
	}

	public WordSearchPuzzle(String wordFile, int wordCount,
                              int shortest, int longest)      {
		// puzzle generation using words from a file
            // The user supplies the filename. In the file 
            // the words should appear one per line.

            // to (randomly) select from the file for use in
            // the puzzle.
            // shortest and longest specify the shortest
            // word length to be used and longest specifies
            // the longest word length to be used.
            // SO, using the words in the file randomly select
            // wordCount words with lengths between shortest
            // and longest.




   //	The class provides an operation that returns the list of words used in the puzzle. The header is as follows

   public List<String> getWordSearchList()

   //	The class provides an operation that returns the generated grid as a two-dimensional array of characters. The header is as follows

   public char[][] getPuzzleAsGrid()

   //	The class provides an operation that returns the generated grid as a String with newlines (i.e. \n) at the end of each line/row of the grid. The header is as follows

     public String getPuzzleAsString()

   //	The class provides an operation that displays the grid and the list of words on the screen. The header is as follows

     public void showWordSearchPuzzle()

   //	The class should include a private method with the following header

     private void generateWordSearchPuzzle()
     */

ajavaProje17_WordSearch.java

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Created by briain on 06/04/17.
 */
public class WordSearch {



    private char[][] grid;
    private ArrayList<String> words;
    private int dimension;
//

    WordSearch (ArrayList<String> aList){

        words= aList;
        dimension= getDimension();
        System.out.print(dimension);
        createGrid();


    }

    int getDimension(){
         double result =0;
        for( int i=0; i<words.size(); i++){
           result+= words.get(i).length();
        }
        result*=1.75;
        result=Math.sqrt(result);
        result= Math.ceil(result);
        return (int)result;
    }




    void createGrid(){
        //create a 2d grid fixed size that reference 'grid'
        //
        //loop through each row
        /// fill
    }






}

ajavaProje17_Wsldriver.java

import java.util.*;

class Wsldriver {
     public static void main (String[] args){
	    WordSearch wpuzzle = new WordSearch (new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList( "this", "that","these",
                                                           "those", "i", "you", 
                                                           "them","us","it","is",
                                                           "on", "off", "up",
                                                           "down", "whatever")));

	
     }
	
	
}