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Academic Course Management

Develop an academic course management system using inheritance. Create an abstract Course class with

Easy

Agricultural Land Analysis

Implement a method to identify the 2x2 submatrix with the highest total crop yield in an agricultura

Hard

Animal Class Design

Implement the Animal class as described above.

Medium

Apartment Class Design

Implement the Apartment class as described above.

Easy

Appliance Efficiency Analyzer

Design an appliance efficiency analyzer using inheritance. Create an abstract Appliance class with a

Medium

ArrayStatistics Utility Class

Implement the ArrayStatistics class as described below.

Hard

Art Exhibit

This question asks you to design an ArtExhibit class to represent an art exhibition show.

Extreme

Bank Account Fee Calculator

Develop a bank account fee calculator using inheritance. Create an abstract BankAccount class with a

Hard

Bank Account Manager

This question requires you to compute interest on a set of bank accounts. You will implement methods

Medium

Bank Transaction Analyzer

Analyze bank transactions by summing deposits and withdrawals from an array of transaction amounts.

Medium

Bank Transaction Analyzer

Implement search methods to analyze bank transactions by amount and transaction ID.

Hard

Bank Transaction Explorer

This question involves searching for transactions by transactionID in a bank system. You will implem

Hard

Bank Transaction Processor

This question simulates processing transactions within a bank. The TransactionProcessor class manage

Hard

Battleship Board Analysis

This question involves a simplified Battleship game board represented by a 2D char array. In this bo

Easy

Battleship Navigation

This problem involves simulating the navigation of a battleship through an ocean grid with obstacles

Hard

Beverage Preparation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for beverage preparation.

Easy

Book Catalog Manager

Design a Book Catalog Manager to search for books by author and compute the average publication year

Easy

Book Collection Manager

This question involves designing a BookCollection class for managing a collection of books, includin

Medium

Book Inventory Manager

This question asks you to design a Book class to manage book details in an inventory system.

Easy

Bookstore Item Discount Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for bookstore items with discount calculations.

Medium

BudgetTracker

Design a BudgetTracker class that helps manage expenses by category.

Easy

Building Evacuation Plan

This question involves developing an evacuation plan for a building modeled as a 2D grid. You will i

Hard

CalendarEvent

Design a CalendarEvent class that manages events scheduled by date and time.

Easy

Car Rental Service

This question asks you to design a CarRental class to model a car available for rent.

Medium

ChatBot Response System

This question involves designing a ChatBotResponseSystem class to simulate basic conversational resp

Hard

Chess Board Analyzer

This EXTREME question involves analyzing a chess board represented as a 2D array. Implement methods

Extreme

Chess Knight Moves

This problem involves simulating the moves of a knight on a chessboard.

Medium

CipherUtility Utility Class

Implement the CipherUtility class as described below.

Medium

City Grid Energy Consumption Analyzer

Implement a method to identify a high energy consumption area in a city grid by detecting a submatri

Hard

City Public Library Reservation System

Implement the sortReservationsByUserId and searchReservationByUserId methods in the LibraryReservati

Easy

City Traffic Grid Analysis

This question uses a 2D character array representing a city traffic grid, where 'C' indicates a car

Hard

City Weather Report

This question asks you to design a CityWeather class to represent weather reports for a city.

Medium

CoffeeOrder Class Design

Implement the CoffeeOrder class as described above.

Easy

ComplexNumberOperations Utility Class

Implement the ComplexNumberOperations class as described below.

Hard

Container Shipping Scheduler

This question simulates scheduling container shipments in a logistics system. The ShippingScheduler

Extreme

Converter Class

This question involves designing a Converter utility class for converting between various units usin

Easy

Cryptography Tool

This question simulates a simple cryptography tool that uses a Caesar cipher to encrypt messages. Th

Medium

Cybersecurity Intrusion Detector

This question involves detecting potential intrusions by validating IP addresses. You will implement

Medium

Data Compression Implementation

This question involves implementing simple data compression and decompression methods using run-leng

Hard

DataEncryption Utility Class

Implement the DataEncryption class as described below.

Hard

DataFormatter Utility Class

Implement the DataFormatter class as described below.

Medium

DateCalculator Utility Class

Implement the DateCalculator class as described below.

Hard

Digital Art Transformer

This question involves transforming a digital art image represented as a 2D array of grayscale pixel

Hard

Digital Mosaic Generator

Develop methods in the DigitalMosaicGenerator class to create a mosaic effect by computing block ave

Extreme

DigitalArt: Invert Colors

This question involves designing the DigitalArt class to invert the colors of a grayscale image. Imp

Easy

Drone Delivery Navigation

This question simulates route planning for drone delivery. You will implement methods to compute the

Extreme

Drone Delivery System

This problem simulates a drone delivery system that navigates through a city grid with obstacles.

Extreme

Drone Flight Grid

This question simulates a drone flying over a 2D airspace grid. You will implement methods to naviga

Hard

Dynamic Array Manipulation

This question involves writing a method to remove duplicates from an array of integers while preserv

Easy

Dynamic Shopping Cart Simulator

This question simulates an online shopping cart scenario in which you must implement methods to dyna

Medium

Dynamic Temperature Monitor

This question involves developing methods for a TemperatureMonitor class to manage and analyze tempe

Medium

E-commerce Order Tracker

Manage e-commerce orders by identifying high-value orders and applying discounts to applicable order

Hard

E-Commerce Product Sorter

Implement the sortProductsByName and searchProductByName methods in the ProductSorter class.

Medium

E-commerce Transaction Validator

This question revolves around the validation of e-commerce transactions using credit card verificati

Hard

Elevator Simulation

This question simulates an elevator system. The ElevatorSystem class tracks the current floor of an

Hard

Employee Class Design

Implement the Employee class as described above.

Medium

Employee Records Search

This FRQ involves managing employee records represented as strings. You will implement methods to so

Easy

Employee Salary Calculation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy to compute employee salaries.

Hard

Employee Schedules Organizer

Implement the sortShifts and searchShift methods in the EmployeeSchedule class.

Easy

Environmental Pollution Monitor

This question involves developing a PollutionMonitor class that analyzes environmental pollution dat

Extreme

Environmental Sensor Data Analyzer

Implement the sortReadings and findFirstOutlier methods in the SensorDataAnalyzer class.

Medium

Event Scheduler

This question involves designing an EventScheduler class to manage and organize events on a timeline

Medium

EventTicketing

Design an EventTicketing class that manages events and tracks ticket sales.

Hard

Exam Grader Automation

This question involves designing an ExamGrader class to automatically grade multiple choice exams ba

Easy

ExpressionEvaluator Class

This question involves designing an ExpressionEvaluator utility class to evaluate arithmetic express

Hard

Factory Production Line Monitor

The ProductionMonitor class records machine outputs on a factory floor using a 2D integer array. Imp

Hard

Farm Cluster Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a farm field to detect clusters of the same

Medium

FileProcessor Utility Class

Implement the FileProcessor class as described below.

Medium

FileStatistics Class

This question involves designing a FileStatistics utility class for computing statistical informatio

Medium

FilmFrame: Time Lapse Overlap

This question involves designing the FilmFrame class to combine two film frames represented by 2D ar

Easy

Financial Stock Analyzer

This question simulates analysis of stock price data. The StockAnalyzer class processes an array of

Hard

Fire Evacuation Simulator

This problem simulates an evacuation scenario within a building during a fire, represented by a grid

Hard

Fitness Tracker Data

Create a Fitness Tracker Data analyzer to compute minimum steps and summary statistics.

Easy

Fitness Tracker Data Analysis

This question simulates analyzing daily step count data from a fitness tracker. The FitnessTracker c

Easy

FitnessTracker

Design a FitnessTracker class that logs workout sessions and provides summary statistics.

Easy

Flight Booking System

Implement the sortBookingsByDeparture and searchBookingByFlightNumber methods in the FlightBookingSy

Hard

Flight Class Design

Implement the Flight class as described above.

Hard

Flight Seating Planner

This question involves planning seating on a flight, using a 2D array to represent seat availability

Medium

Floor Plan Transformer

Develop methods in the FloorPlanEditor class to rotate a floor plan 90 degrees and mirror it horizon

Extreme

Forest Fire Simulation

This problem simulates the spread of a forest fire in a 2D grid representing a forest.

Medium

Forest Fire Simulator

Implement methods to analyze forest fire spread using a grid. Identify contiguous fire clusters and

Medium

ForestFire: Spread Simulation

This question involves designing the ForestFire class to simulate the spread of fire in a forest rep

Hard

Fuel Consumption Tracker

Analyze fuel consumption readings by removing outlier values and computing the average consumption.

Hard

Game of Life Pattern Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a Game of Life board to count the live neigh

Easy

Game Score Tracker

This question involves implementing a ScoreTracker class to update game scores and retrieve the high

Easy

Garden Layout Planner

This question involves planning a garden layout represented as a 2D grid and evaluating sprinkler co

Easy

Garden Plant Height Analysis

The GardenAnalyzer class manages a 2D array representing the heights of plants in a garden. Implemen

Medium

Garden Plot Watering Scheduler

This question involves managing a garden plot represented as a 2D array. Implement methods in the Ga

Medium

Geometric Shapes Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for calculating the area of geometric shapes.

Easy

GeometryHelper Utility Class

Implement the GeometryHelper class as described below.

Medium

GeometryUtil Class

This question involves designing a GeometryUtil utility class that calculates areas of common geomet

Easy

GPS Navigation Assistant

This question simulates a GPS navigation assistant. The NavigationSystem class computes distances be

Hard

Grayscale Image Edge Finder

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a grayscale image to detect edge pixels base

Hard

Grid Explorer Simulation

This problem simulates an explorer navigating an island grid with treasures, obstacles, and varied t

Medium

Gym Membership Tracker

This question involves implementing a MembershipTracker class to update member statuses and generate

Medium

Hospital Floor Navigator

This question involves navigating the complex layout of a hospital floor represented as a 2D grid. Y

Hard

Hospital Patient Management

Implement the sortPatientsByName and searchPatientByName methods in the PatientManager class.

Medium

Hospital Patient System

This question involves a hospital patient management system. You will complete the searchPatient and

Hard

HospitalPatient Class Design

Implement the HospitalPatient class as described above.

Extreme

House Listing

This question asks you to design a House class to model real estate listings.

Medium

HTTPStatusHelper Class

This question involves designing an HTTPStatusHelper utility class that maps HTTP status codes to th

Easy

Image Color Inverter

Develop a method in the PhotoEditor class that inverts the color of an image by replacing each pixel

Easy

Image Edge Enhancer

Implement a method in the ImageEditor class that enhances the edges in an image by applying an edge

Hard

Image Filter Application

In this question, you will work with a grayscale image represented as a 2D array of pixel values. Im

Medium

Image Flipper

Develop methods in the ImageEditor class to flip an image horizontally and vertically.

Medium

ImageTransformer: Combined Horizontal Flip and 90-Degree Rotation

This multi-part question involves designing an ImageTransformer class that performs multiple transfo

Hard

Inventory Item

This question asks you to design an InventoryItem class to represent an item in a store's inventory.

Extreme

Inventory Management System

Manage an inventory by removing expired items and computing the total value of the remaining stock.

Medium

Inventory Management System

This question involves creating an inventory management system that uses ArrayLists to maintain a dy

Hard

InventoryFormatter Class

This question involves designing an InventoryFormatter utility class that formats inventory data int

Hard

Lawn Mower Simulator

This problem simulates a lawn mower navigating a garden grid that includes obstacles such as flower

Easy

Leaderboard System Simulation

This question involves designing a Leaderboard class to dynamically track players' scores and update

Medium

Library Book Inventory

Process a library's book inventory by counting overdue books and computing total overdue fines.

Medium

Library Book Manager

This question simulates a library book manager that handles book search functionality. You will comp

Medium

Library Catalog Advisor

Implement methods to sort a library catalog by publication year using selection sort and merge sort.

Medium

Library Loan Duration Analyzer

Create a Library Loan Duration Analyzer to remove overdue loans and compute the average loan duratio

Hard

Library Navigation Assistant

This question involves assisting with navigating a library, whose layout is represented as a 2D grid

Medium

LibraryCard Class Design

Implement the LibraryCard class as described above.

Medium

LibrarySystem

Design a LibrarySystem class that manages book inventory and tracks book lending.

Extreme

Logistics Delivery Routing

This question involves optimizing logistics delivery routes. You will implement methods to sort deli

Hard

MathUtil Class

This question involves designing a MathUtil utility class that provides several mathematical computa

Medium

MathUtilities Utility Class

Implement the MathUtilities class as described below.

Medium

MatrixOperations Class

This question involves designing a MatrixOperations utility class for performing matrix multiplicati

Extreme

Maze Navigator

Implement a method to determine if a path exists through a maze represented as a 2D grid of open ('0

Hard

MazeRobot Navigation

This question involves managing a MazeRobot that navigates a 2D grid maze with obstacles. You will i

Hard

Medical Image Processor

Design methods for processing medical images by enhancing contrast and detecting anomalies.

Extreme

Medical Imaging Tumor Scanner

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing an image to detect tumor regions based on pi

Extreme

Messaging System Interface

Design a messaging system using inheritance. Create an abstract Message class with an abstract metho

Easy

Meteorological Storm Cell Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array of radar data to identify storm cells based on intensity

Extreme

Mining Sensor Data Processor

This question involves designing a SensorData class that processes quantitative readings from mining

Hard

Mobile Phone

This question asks you to design a MobilePhone class to model a smartphone.

Hard

MosaicMaker: Pixelation Effect

This question involves designing the MosaicMaker class to create a pixelated version of an image. Im

Medium

Movie Ratings Analyzer

Compute the average rating from an ArrayList of movie ratings.

Easy

Movie Theater Seat Reservation

This question examines seating arrangements in a movie theater using a 2D array. Implement methods i

Easy

Museum Security Patrol

This problem simulates a museum guard’s patrol through a grid representing a museum layout.

Medium

Music Playlist Duration Analyzer

Develop a Music Playlist Duration Analyzer to filter short tracks and compute total duration.

Easy

Music Playlist Manager

This question involves designing a MusicPlaylistManager class to organize and manage a playlist of s

Easy

Music Playlist Organizer

Implement sorting methods to organize songs in a playlist by duration using bubble sort and merge so

Easy

Music Playlist Organizer

This question focuses on managing a music playlist stored in an ArrayList. You will implement a meth

Easy

Musical Instruments Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for musical instruments.

Medium

MusicTrack Class Design

Implement the MusicTrack class as described above.

Medium

Office Layout Navigation

This problem simulates an employee navigating through an office layout grid to find the exit.

Easy

Office Temperature Monitor

Implement a method to detect potential hot zones in an office by scanning for 2x2 submatrices where

Hard

Online Course Feedback Analyzer

Implement the sortFeedbackScores and searchFeedbackScore methods in the FeedbackAnalyzer class.

Hard

Online Review Analyzer

Design an Online Review Analyzer to filter positive reviews and compute the average rating.

Easy

Online Survey Analyzer

This question involves analyzing online survey responses. You will implement methods to compute the

Easy

Pac-Man Maze Simulation

This problem involves simulating Pac-Man's movement in a maze to collect pellets.

Medium

PacMan Maze Simulation

This question involves simulating a PacMan maze where both PacMan and ghosts move through a 2D grid.

Extreme

Parcel Delivery Optimization

This FRQ involves the management of parcel weights in a delivery system. You will implement methods

Easy

Park Ranger Monitoring Layout

This question involves calculating the number of trees visible from a given point in a park layout r

Easy

Parking Lot Manager

This question simulates a parking lot management system. The ParkingLot class manages a grid of park

Medium

Parking Lot Occupancy Tracker

This question involves determining occupancy information for a parking lot represented as a 2D array

Easy

PasswordGenerator Utility Class

Implement the PasswordGenerator class as described below.

Extreme

Personal Finance Calculator

This question involves implementing a FinanceCalculator class to compute monthly interest and cumula

Hard

Planet Surface Rover Simulator

This question involves simulating a rover navigating the surface of a planet represented as a 2D gri

Extreme

PolynomialUtils Class

This question involves designing a PolynomialUtils utility class to evaluate polynomials using stati

Easy

PrimeUtils Class

This question involves designing a PrimeUtils utility class that offers methods for prime number ope

Medium

Product Class Design

Implement the Product class as described above.

Easy

Public Transport Usage Analyzer

Analyze public transport usage by identifying routes with unusual surges based on passenger counts.

Medium

QR Code Processor

Implement methods for processing QR code images by reducing noise and flipping the code vertically.

Medium

Race Timing Analyzer

Determine the fastest race time from an array of finish times.

Easy

Real Estate Analyzer

This question involves implementing a RealEstateAnalyzer class to compute the average property price

Medium

RecipeOrganizer

Design a RecipeOrganizer class that manages a collection of recipes and their ingredients.

Medium

Recycling Center Material Sorter

Implement the sortMaterialsByType and searchMaterialByType methods in the MaterialSorter class.

Easy

Reservation System

This question involves designing a ReservationSystem class to manage seat reservations for a venue.

Medium

Restaurant Menu Sorter

This question involves sorting a restaurant menu by price. You will implement the sortMenuByPrice me

Easy

Restaurant Order Processor

This question involves processing restaurant orders by computing the total cost of items in an order

Easy

Retail Inventory Empty Shelf Detector

Implement a method to check which rows in a retail inventory grid are completely empty.

Easy

Retail Inventory Manager

Implement methods to manage retail inventory by sorting items by stock quantity and searching for an

Easy

Retail Product Pricing

Design a retail product pricing system using inheritance. Create an abstract Product class with an a

Hard

Ride Sharing App Matching System

This question involves designing a RideShareMatcher class that matches riders with nearby drivers us

Hard

Road Trip Planner

This question involves creating a RoadTripPlanner class that manages an ArrayList of stops (location

Easy

Robot Controller

This question involves designing a RobotController class to simulate a robot navigating a grid-based

Medium

Robot Navigation Simulator

This question involves designing a RobotNavigator class that simulates movement in a grid and determ

Hard

Robot Task Performance Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for robots performing various tasks.

Medium

Room Temperature Monitor

This question involves analyzing room temperature data stored in a 2D array. Implement methods in th

Easy

Sales Performance Analysis

This FRQ involves analyzing sales figures. You will implement methods to sort sales figures in desce

Hard

Satellite Crop Field Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a satellite image of crop fields to determin

Hard

Satellite Image Analyzer

Enhance the analysis of satellite imagery by implementing methods to flip an image horizontally and

Medium

Security Camera Image Analyzer

Implement the autoEnhance method in the SecurityCameraProcessor class to adjust brightness and contr

Medium

SecurityCam: Blur Filter

This question involves designing the SecurityCam class to apply a blur filter on a grayscale securit

Medium

Sensor Data Filter

Filter sensor readings by removing values below a specified threshold.

Medium

Sensor Data Processor

This question involves designing a SensorDataProcessor class to handle and analyze data from multipl

Extreme

Sewer System Map Mapper

This question involves mapping an underground sewer system represented as a 2D grid. You will implem

Extreme

Smart Home Energy Monitor

This question involves designing an EnergyMonitor class that processes smart home energy usage data

Medium

Smart Home Energy Monitor

This question simulates a smart home energy monitoring system. The EnergyMonitor class analyzes hour

Medium

Smartphone Class Design

Implement the Smartphone class as described above.

Hard

Social Distancing Layout Checker

Implement a method to count pairs of people seated too close in a 2D seating grid.

Easy

Social Media Analytics

This FRQ centers on social media post analytics. You will implement methods to sort post 'like' coun

Medium

Social Media Engagement Tracker

Develop a Social Media Engagement Tracker to filter trending posts and compute the median number of

Hard

Social Media Feed Analyzer

This question involves developing a SocialMediaFeedAnalyzer class that processes an array of like co

Hard

Social Media Friend Search

Design search methods to find user profiles by username using linear and binary search.

Easy

Social Media Post Scheduler

This question involves scheduling social media posts. You will implement methods for scheduling indi

Medium

Sports Equipment Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for modeling sports equipment usage.

Easy

Sports Team Player Evaluation

Develop a sports team player evaluation system using inheritance. Create an abstract Player class wi

Hard

Sports Team Ranking

This question involves ranking sports teams by their number of wins. You will implement the selectio

Easy

SportsTeam Class Design

Implement the SportsTeam class as described above.

Hard

Spreadsheet Data Analyzer

This question analyzes a 2D array representing spreadsheet data. The SpreadsheetAnalyzer class store

Medium

Stock Market Trend Analyzer

This question involves analyzing stock price data using advanced array manipulation techniques. You

Extreme

StockTracker

Design a StockTracker class that records stock prices and computes moving averages.

Hard

StockTracker Simulation

This question involves designing a StockTracker class to monitor the stock prices of various compani

Hard

StringManipulator Utility Class

Implement the StringManipulator class as described below.

Medium

StringParser Utility Class

Implement the StringParser class as described below.

Medium

Student Class Design

Implement the Student class as described above.

Medium

Student Grade Processor

Develop a Student Grade Processor to filter passing grades and compute the median grade.

Hard

Student Grades Sorting

This FRQ involves processing a list of student exam scores. You will implement methods to sort score

Easy

Student Record

This question asks you to design a Student class to record student information.

Easy

Student Record System

This question simulates the management of student records. The StudentRecords class maintains parall

Easy

Student Records Processor

This question simulates processing student records using two different search methods: linear search

Hard

Student Search Database

Implement linear and binary search methods to locate a student record by ID in a database.

Medium

Survey Data Processor

Analyze survey responses by computing frequency distribution and determining the most common respons

Extreme

TaskManager

Design a TaskManager class that tracks tasks and their completion status for project management.

Medium

TeamStats

Implement methods to sort sports teams by their win-loss records and search for a team by name.

Extreme

Terrain Map Editor

Implement methods to process a terrain map represented as a 2D array by flipping it vertically and s

Hard

TerrainMap: Elevation Smoothing

This question involves designing a TerrainMap class that smooths a 2D array representing terrain ele

Easy

TextStatistics Class

This question involves designing a TextStatistics utility class that analyzes text data using static

Medium

Thermal Image Converter

Implement a method in the ThermalImageConverter class to normalize thermal data to a 0-255 scale usi

Hard

Ticket Booking System

This question simulates a seat booking system for events. The TicketBooking class manages a two-dime

Hard

TimeConversion Class

This question involves designing a TimeConversion utility class that converts between seconds and HH

Medium

Traffic Accident Analyzer

This question involves implementing an AccidentAnalyzer class to process accident reports and comput

Hard

Traffic Congestion Zone Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing traffic densities to count contiguous zones

Easy

Traffic Grid Simulator

This problem involves developing a simulation for vehicle movement within a city traffic grid.

Extreme

Traffic Light Simulator

Adjust traffic light timings by adding bonus seconds to those below a given threshold.

Medium

Traffic Pattern Analyzer

Implement methods to process a traffic video frame by flipping it horizontally and detecting traffic

Hard

Traffic Simulator

This question involves designing a TrafficSimulator class to model and simulate traffic flow on a gr

Extreme

Traffic Violation Record Search

Implement the sortRecordsByLicensePlate and searchRecordByLicensePlate methods in the ViolationRecor

Hard

Transportation Ticket Pricing Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for transportation tickets.

Easy

Travel Itinerary Planner

This question involves developing methods for an ItineraryPlanner class that organizes travel destin

Medium

University Course

This question asks you to design a UniversityCourse class to represent a course offered at a univers

Medium

Urban Building Cluster Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a city map to count clusters of a specified

Medium

UrbanPlanner: Map Rotation and Reflection

This multi-part question involves designing the UrbanPlanner class to manipulate a city map represen

Extreme

Vaccine Distribution Center Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing vaccine storage bins to detect clusters of e

Hard

Vehicle Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for vehicles.

Medium

VehicleTracker

Design a VehicleTracker class that maintains and updates vehicle locations for logistics.

Medium

Virtual Garden Layout Analyzer

Implement a method to count the number of contiguous plant regions in a garden layout grid.

Medium

Virtual Zoo Habitat Enclosure

This question involves analyzing animal species within a virtual zoo's habitat, represented as a 2D

Medium

Virus Spread Simulation

This question simulates the spread of a virus over a series of days. You will implement methods to p

Extreme

Warehouse Inventory Manager

Develop a Warehouse Inventory Manager to remove out-of-stock items and compute the average stock lev

Medium

Warehouse Inventory Tracker

The Warehouse class manages a 2D array representing the count of boxes in different warehouse sectio

Medium

Warehouse Pallet Organizer

Develop methods to organize and sort warehouse pallets by weight using selection sort and merge sort

Extreme

Weather Data Analysis

This question involves analyzing weather temperature data using sliding window techniques. You will

Hard

Weather Data Analysis

This FRQ focuses on using an ArrayList of temperature readings. You will implement methods to sort t

Medium

Weather Data Analyzer

Implement methods to process weather station data by sorting stations by temperature and searching f

Hard

Weather Data Analyzer

Implement the sortTemperatures and getTemperatureRange methods in the WeatherDataAnalyzer class.

Hard

Weather Data Processing

This question involves implementing a WeatherAnalyzer class to process daily temperature readings an

Easy

Weather Forecast Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for weather forecasts.

Hard

Weather Station Data Analyzer

This question involves analyzing weather station data records. You will implement methods to sort te

Medium

WeatherReport Class Design

Implement the WeatherReport class as described above.

Medium

Wildlife Herd Counter

Implement a method to count the number of distinct animal herds in a wildlife tracking grid.

Medium

Word Search Puzzle Analyzer

This question requires scanning a word search puzzle represented by a 2D character array to locate a

Easy

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