learn-co-curriculum / java-mod-2-assessment

Module 2 Project Guidelines

Overview

Console application with user input to build a basic "world", e.g. a hospital with doctors of various specialties. The hospital has doctors. The doctors are of different types, and have patients.

Project Brief

Create a virtual world with the appropriate relationships between a Hospital, Doctors and Patients.

Requirements

• The system should create a Hospital with a name property provided by the user.
• The system should create 3 doctors, each with a name and specialty provided by the user.
  • The specialty is user-definable, but good examples are:
    • Dermatology
    • Pediatrics
    • Radiology
    • ...
• The system should establish that the doctors work at the system's hospital.
• The system should ask the user to create 5 patients and match each patient to a doctor based on the specialty they need.
• When the system is done collecting input from the user and building the world, it should "display" the world to the user (text-based display on the command line).
• The system must handle invalid input from the user (at all points where input is gathered from the user).

Stretch goals

• User-defined number of doctors.
• Pre-defined list of doctor specialties that the user must select from.
• User-defined number of patients.
• Pre-defined list of patient symptoms that match up to doctor specialties.
• System matches patients to doctors based on user-selected symptoms.

Getting Started

• Create a class to model each entity in your virtual world, i.e. you should have a class for Hospital, a class for Doctor and a class for Patient.
• Determine the data structures you will need to hold the instances of those classes. Hint: think about collections.
• You will need a runnable class to start your world and gather input from the user.

Sample Code

Start by creating a runnable class:

public class HospitalWorld {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Running...");
    }
}

Create a class for each entity you will be modeling:

public class Hospital {

}

public class Doctor {

}

public class Patient {

}

Reminders

• Use existing built-in Java functions where possible
• The Scanner class has useful functionality for getting input from the user