From 034714499d449e3396489e3dff66b63da830e36b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: andrechamoun555 <andre.chamoun03@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:36:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] ex core completed

---
 src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java | 58 ++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java b/src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java
index 88108a8..2405e99 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java
@@ -1,12 +1,68 @@
 package com.booleanuk;
 
 public class Scrabble {
+    private String word;
+
+
     public Scrabble(String word) {
+        this.word = word;
 
     }
 
     public int score() {
-        return -1;
+        int total = 0;
+        String upperCaseString = word.toUpperCase();
+
+        for (int i = 0; i <upperCaseString.length(); i++) {
+           char ch = upperCaseString.charAt(i);
+
+           switch(ch) {
+               case 'A':
+               case 'E':
+               case 'I':
+               case 'O':
+               case 'U':
+               case 'L':
+               case 'N':
+               case 'R':
+               case 'S':
+               case 'T':
+                   total += 1;
+                   break;
+               case 'D':
+               case 'G':
+                   total += 2;
+                   break;
+               case 'B':
+               case 'C':
+               case 'M':
+               case 'P':
+                   total += 3;
+                   break;
+               case 'F':
+               case 'H':
+               case 'V':
+               case 'W':
+               case 'Y':
+                   total += 4;
+                   break;
+               case 'K':
+                   total += 5;
+                   break;
+               case 'J':
+               case 'X':
+                   total += 8;
+                   break;
+               case 'Q':
+               case 'Z':
+                   total += 10;
+                   break;
+               default:
+
+           }
+        }
+        return total;
     }
 
+
 }

From 2b51472e55fc1f66d1756943e1652909c7af90a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: andrechamoun555 <andre.chamoun03@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:54:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] ex core completed

---
 src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java b/src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java
index 2405e99..2b8c239 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/booleanuk/Scrabble.java
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 package com.booleanuk;
 
 public class Scrabble {
-    private String word;
+    private final String word;
 
 
     public Scrabble(String word) {