Using the Coin Class

This lab gives you practice with writing and calling simple methods. It also gives you practice with using methods to access private data members.

The code for a Coin class is in the file Coin.java. Copy it to your directory, then write a program to find the length of the longest run of heads in 100 flips of the coin. A skeleton of the program is in the file Runs.java. To use the Coin class you need to do the following in the program:

1. Create a coin object.
   
2. Inside the loop, you should use the flip method to flip the coin, the toString method (used implicitly) to print the results of the flip, and the getFace method to see if the result was HEADS. Keeping track of the current run length (the number of times in a row that the coin was HEADS) and the maximum run length is an exercise in loop techniques!
   
3. Print the result after the loop.

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