CST242 Project 5: Chapter 16

Generic Collections Apps

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• Start a new project named "project-5" that defines a class Person with the following:
   
  • Instance variables firstName (type String), middleInitial (type char) and lastName (type String)
  • A constructor with String, char, String parameters (assign the parameters directly to the instance variables in this constructor) (no set methods are required)
  • Accessor (get) methods for all three instance variables
  • A toString method that returns a String representation of an object in the form:
    
      John H. Johnson
     
• Complete the assignment for partial- or full-credit as follows:
   
  • For a partial-credit maximum of 8½ out of 10 (ten) points: (1) instantiate a List of "Person" objects from the ArrayList constructor; (2) populate the List with five "Person" elements by calling the add method for each new element; and (3) iterate through and display the toString method of each element of the List using an Iterator object (see the 1-point deduction version below)
     
  • For a full-credit maximum of 10 out of 10 (ten) points: (1) instantiate a comparator class PersonComparator that implements the Comparator interface; (2) in the compare method of this comparator class, sort "Person" objects by last name and then first name and then middle initial; (3) instantiate and use a new "PersonComparator" object within a Collections.sort method to sort the List; and (4) iterate through and display the toString methods of each element of the sorted List using an Iterator object (see the 1-point deduction version below)
     
• For either of the options above there is a 1-point deduction for simply displaying the List object in a single step without iterating through it using an Iterator object but rather instead using just a for loop either with a "counter" or a "for-each" loop
   
• This project may be completed as either a Java console or JavaFX application (no extra or less credit for doing one or the other)

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• Provide full documentation using the Javadoc standard and based upon the downloaded sample files for the unit

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• Students may work on all projects in teams of two or three, and, if so, all students in the group must submit the same project to their own dropboxes in Brightspace.  In the text box's dropbox, as well as in the source code documentation (comments), state the name(s) of the classmate(s) with whom you worked.
   
• When all steps are finished, create a .ZIP archive (not a .RAR) of the entire project.  This completed assignment with a copy of all files from the NetBeans project submitted electronically via an attachment to a Brightspace dropbox is due to Prof. Struck by 11:59 p.m. on the date specified in the course outline.

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