CS 151 Object Oriented Programming

Homework 2

The library has to support the following:

• Searching for library materials (books, videos, and technical journals).
• Lending of library materials
• Users will enter their company ids in order to use the system, and they will enter material ID# when checking out and returning items.
• Each borrower can be lent up to five items.
• Each type of library item can be lent for a different period of time (book 4 weeks, journals 2 weeks, video 1 week).
• If returned after their due date, the library user's organization will be charged a fine, based on the type of item (books $1/day, journals $3/day, videos $5/day)
• Materials will be lent to employees with no overdue lendables, fewer than five articles out, and total fines less then $100.

You must provide an menu to

• Search library materials
• Check out library materials
• Return library materials
• Display all materials currently in the library
• Display all materials currently lent out of the library
• Display a list of current users
• Display a list of materials borrowed by a user
• (If the menu is displayed using a nice SWING presentation, up to 50 points of credit will be awarded.)

Design and develop all the necessary classes for this simulation program. You need to write a test drive program that will

• Read in an initial set of data for users and library materials (define your own format)
• Provide the menu describes above for simulation

You might come up with a list of classes (as sample) to implement like the following (Librarian, Lendable, Book, Video, Journal, Date, Borrower, User and Library) This program is relatively long, so, START early!