Final Group or Individual Project for CSC172

Create a file based inventory system. This system will be built as a series of assignments, with a few enhancements at the end of the semester:

Some intermediate assignments planned:

• Arraylist and File Processing: Create a single file inventory list that is held in a file and updated by the user. Add, change and delete (all internally as rewriting the entire file). The file should be comma separated.
• Sets: Use a set to determine how many values the inventory has in one of the inventory attributes.
• Treemap: Allow the user to print the number of items that have each value inside an attribute.
• Sort: Allow the user to determine which column to sort when printing a list of all inventory items, and also give the user an option to reorganize the items in the file in item number order
• Searching: Give the user an option to search for a certain item quality. Use a binary search to implement this

The final project submission needs to include:

• Menu of options including:
• add an item
• change an item
• delete an item
• one inventory attribute analysis – enter attribute
• for one item attribute (such as color), print each value and a count of how many items have each value.
• Display a list with different sort options
• find an item with a certain quality – using binary search

• Code attributes:
• Good use of object oriented design – divide responsibilities into logically reasonable classes
• Need an item, itemList, itemManager, and Comparator class as a minimum. They can have names that are appropriate for your project

o Testing

§ Tester class with a few good test methods

o Strong program documentation

§ internal

· javadoc generation

· functions well described in javadoc

· clear parameter names

· meaningful internal comments that would help another maintain your code.

• External
• UML documentation