ProgressBar | Topcoder Archive

Problem Statement

Installation programs often run several tasks, one after another. Each task is assigned an integer, the expected execution time of this task. During the installation, a progress bar shows the user what percentage of the installation time has elapsed. In this problem, the bar will be represented by a string containing exactly 20 characters. If X% of the installation has been completed, then the leftmost X% of these characters should be a '#', while the remaining characters should be '.'. If necessary, round down the number of '#' characters to the nearest integer less than or equal to the actual value (see example 0). The bar starts at 0% and is only updated each time a task finishes execution.

Create a class ProgressBar containing the method showProgress which takes a int[] taskTimes, the expected execution time for each task in the order they are run, and an int tasksCompleted, the number of these tasks that have been completed. The method should return a String containing exactly 20 characters showing the progress bar according to the descriptions above.

Definition

Class:: ProgressBar
Method:: showProgress
Parameters:: int[], int
Returns:: String
Method signature:: String showProgress(int[] taskTimes, int tasksCompleted)
(be sure your method is public)

Constraints

taskTimes will contain between 1 and 50 elements, inclusive.
Each element in taskTimes will be between 1 and 1000, inclusive.
tasksCompleted will be between 0 and the number of elements in taskTimes, inclusive.

Examples

```
{19,6,23,17}
```
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3
```
```
Returns: "##############......"
```
This installation consist of 4 tasks, and the expected execution times for these are 19, 6, 23 and 17, respectively. Since the first 3 tasks have been completed, the total execution time for the installation so far has been 19+6+23 = 48 and the total expected time is 19+6+23+17 = 65. Thus 48/65 = 73.84615% of the installation has been completed, so the first 20*0.7384615 = 14.76923 = 14 (round down) characters in the string should be '#', and the remaining 6 should be '.'. Thus the method returns "##############......"
```
{2,3,7,1,4,3}
```
```
4
```
```
Returns: "#############......."
```
The installation has run for 2+3+7+1 = 13 units and the total execution is 2+3+7+1+4+3 = 20.

{553,846,816,203,101,120,161,818,315,772}

Returns: "##########.........."

{7,60,468,489,707,499,350,998,1000,716,457,104,597,583,396,862}

Returns: "...................."

```
{419,337,853,513,632,861,336,594,94,367,336,297,966,627,399,433,846,859,80,2}
```
```
19
```
```
Returns: "###################."
```
Even though about 99.98% of the installation has been completed, the last character should still be a '.' since we always round down.

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