The particular scenarios selected for each semester try ask you to implement as many of these objectives as possible in some compelling way. I am always open to additions and suggestions.
Objectives for each project:
Project 1 - classes, text data file, GUI, searching
- Read data from a text file specified at run time, using that data to create instances of the classes, creating a multi-tree, and organizing those instances in existing JDK structures which can be sorted, such as ArrayList's.
- Create a simple GUI presenting the data in the structures with with some buttons and text fields allowing SEARCH on the various fields of each class.
- Define and implement appropriate classes, including instance and class variables, constructors, and other methods.
Project 2 - Map class, Comparator, sorting
- Use the JDK Map class to write more efficient code when constructing the internal data structures from the data file.
- Implement sorting using the Comparator interface together with the JDK support for sorting data structures, thus sorting on different fields of the classes from project 1.
- Extend the GUI from project 1 to let the user's sort the data at run-time.
Project 3 - More JDK classes - GUI's and threads
- Explore other GUI classes, such as JTree, JTable, and JProgressBar.
- Create and run competing threads.
Project 4 - Concurrency
- Resource pools
- Blocking threads
- Extending the GUI interface to visualize the resource pools and progress of the various threads.