Files Provided To You

SortDetective.jar, which looks something like this:

The purpose of this little HW assignment is to correctly identify the 6 Greek letters (Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, & Zeta) with their matching sorting method (selection, insertion, bubble, quick, merge, & heap sort).

Step 1 – Download JD-GUI

Head over to the Java Decompiler page located at jd.benow.ca) and download the ZIP file for the JD-GUI.

Step 2 – Launch JD-GUI

Now that you’ve downloaded the ZIP file, unzip it and launch the application.

Step 3 – Open your `SortDetective.jar` file using `JD-GUI`

Step 4 – Find the Formula That Determines The Order

SortDetective.jar determines the sorting method ordering according to your student ID.

It has an array defined with 5 different orders that the sorting methods CAN be placed in. See Line 256 in the SortDetective.class.

Zooming in…

With some minor searches, we find out that the method experimentOrders uses the variable selectedPermutation to determine what array value it will use to determine the order.

This redirects us to the setStudentID() method. So now we’ve figured out the ordering all just depends on the formula the program uses.

Step 5 – Apply Formula To `experimentOrders`

So, in my case, my student ID is 00319124.

Using the formula, we can determine that the value of selectedPermutation is going to be 2 for me since 319124 / 10 % 5= 2.4 or simply 2 for int. That means that the array value for experimentOrders will be 2, making a match to the order found on Line 7 when zooming in to Line 256 in SortDetective.class.