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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

Animal Sounds Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for representing animals and their sounds.

Easy

Ant Colony Simulation

This problem simulates the movement and pheromone updating of an ant colony on a terrain grid.

Extreme

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

ArrayUtilities Class

This question involves designing an ArrayUtilities utility class for performing operations on intege

Easy

Art Collection Organizer

This question involves organizing an art collection by the year each piece was created. You will imp

Medium

Art Exhibit

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

Extreme

Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner

This question involves simulating an autonomous vacuum cleaner navigating a room represented as a 2D

Medium

Bank Transaction Analyzer

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

Medium

Bank Transaction Processor

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

Hard

Battlefield Strategy Grid

This question involves determining line-of-sight on a battlefield grid to decide if a unit can attac

Hard

Battleship Navigation

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

Hard

Blueprint Analyzer

Develop methods in the BlueprintAnalyzer class to rotate a blueprint 90 degrees and to check if it i

Extreme

Book Collection Manager

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

Medium

Bookstore Item Discount Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for bookstore items with discount calculations.

Medium

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

Campus Map Building Finder

The CampusMap class represents a campus using a 2D char array where each character represents a buil

Medium

ChatBot Response System

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

Hard

ChessKnight Moves

This question involves calculating all possible moves for a knight on a chessboard from a given posi

Medium

City Metro Routing

This question involves developing methods for a MetroRouter class that assists in finding optimal tr

Hard

City Public Library Reservation System

Implement the sortReservationsByUserId and searchReservationByUserId methods in the LibraryReservati

Easy

City Traffic Congestion

Develop a City Traffic Congestion analyzer to filter intersections with high delays and compute the

Hard

City Weather Report

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

Medium

Coffee Shop Order

This question asks you to design a CoffeeOrder class to manage orders at a coffee shop.

Easy

ComplexNumberOperations Utility Class

Implement the ComplexNumberOperations class as described below.

Hard

Contest Ranking System

Implement the sortScoresDescending and findTopTwoScores methods in the ContestRanker class.

Medium

Converter Class

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

Easy

Course Enrollment Sorter

Develop methods to sort courses by enrollment numbers using selection sort and merge sort.

Medium

CreditCardFormatter Utility Class

Implement the CreditCardFormatter class as described below.

Hard

Cryptography Tool

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

Medium

Cuisine Dish Preparation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for cuisine dish preparation.

Medium

CurrencyConverter Utility Class

Implement the CurrencyConverter class as described below.

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

Data Encryption Simulator

This question simulates a simple data encryption system using a Caesar cipher. You will implement me

Medium

DataEncryption Utility Class

Implement the DataEncryption class as described below.

Hard

DataFormatter Utility Class

Implement the DataFormatter class as described below.

Medium

Digital Art Transformer

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

Hard

Digital Library Borrowing Data

This FRQ involves analyzing borrowing data from a digital library. You will implement methods to sor

Medium

Digital Media Library

This question asks you to design a DigitalMedia class to represent digital media items in a library.

Extreme

Digital Mosaic Generator

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

Extreme

Digital Photo Editor

Implement a brightness adjustment method in the DigitalPhotoEditor class to uniformly increase the b

Medium

Digital Poster Editor

Enhance the digital poster editing experience by implementing brightness adjustment and horizontal m

Medium

DigitalArt: Invert Colors

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

Easy

Drone Delivery System

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

Extreme

Dynamic Temperature Monitor

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

Medium

E-commerce Order System

This question simulates processing customer orders in an e-commerce environment. The OrderProcessor

Medium

E-commerce Review Sorter

Implement methods to sort product reviews by rating and search for a review with a specific rating.

Medium

Earthquake Intensity Map Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing earthquake intensity readings to identify hi

Hard

Election Ballot Organizer

This question involves organizing election ballots by sorting them with two different algorithms. Yo

Extreme

Election Vote Counter

Implement the sortCandidatesByName and searchCandidateByName methods in the VoteCounter class.

Hard

Election Vote Tally

This question involves tallying votes from multiple precincts stored in a 2D array. Implement method

Medium

Email Management System

This question involves sorting emails by date and searching for an email by its subject. You will im

Medium

Emergency Alerts Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for an emergency alert system.

Hard

Emergency Response Routing

This problem simulates the planning of an emergency response route on a city grid.

Extreme

Employee Payroll

This question asks you to design an Employee class to manage payroll information.

Hard

Employee Record Finder

Sort employee records by salary and implement a binary search method to locate an employee by salary

Hard

Employee Salary Calculation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy to compute employee salaries.

Hard

Employee Salary System

Design an employee salary system using inheritance. Create an abstract Employee class with an abstra

Hard

Employee Timesheet Processor

This question involves implementing a TimesheetProcessor class to compute total work hours and ident

Medium

EncryptionHelper Class

This question involves designing an EncryptionHelper utility class that performs simple Caesar ciphe

Medium

Energy Consumption Tracker

Design an Energy Consumption Tracker to filter erroneous readings and compute peak consumption.

Extreme

Environmental Pollution Monitor

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

Extreme

Environmental Sensor Readings

Design an Environmental Sensor Readings analyzer to filter valid readings and compute standard devia

Medium

Event Scheduler

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

Medium

Event Scheduling Simulator

Manage event schedules by detecting conflicts and removing conflicting events.

Hard

EventTicketing

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

Hard

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

FileProcessor Class

This question involves designing a FileProcessor utility class that deals with text file content pro

Medium

Financial Portfolio Manager

This question involves designing a FinancialPortfolioManager class to track and analyze a portfolio

Hard

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 Activity Calories Calculation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy to calculate calories burned during fitness activities.

Medium

Fitness Tracker

This question involves designing a FitnessTracker class to record and analyze workout sessions.

Medium

Fitness Tracker Data

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

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 Reservation System

This question involves designing a FlightReservation class to manage seat bookings, cancellations, a

Extreme

Flight Status Tracker

This question involves designing a FlightStatusTracker class to monitor and report the status of var

Medium

Flood Fill Algorithm

This problem involves implementing a flood fill algorithm on a 2D grid representing an image.

Hard

Game Item Shop

This question involves designing a GameItemShop class to simulate an online shop for virtual game it

Medium

Game Score Tracker

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

Easy

GameBoardMirror: Invert Puzzle Board

This question involves designing the GameBoard class for a sliding puzzle game. Implement the mirror

Medium

Gaming Leaderboard Management

This FRQ involves managing a gaming leaderboard. You will implement methods to sort player scores in

Extreme

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

Gardening Tool Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for gardening tools.

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

Hospital Patient Management

Implement the sortPatientsByName and searchPatientByName methods in the PatientManager class.

Medium

Hospital Patient Tracker

Track hospital patients by filtering critical cases and computing the average stay duration.

Extreme

Hospital Patient Wait Times

Develop a Hospital Patient Wait Times analyzer to filter critical waits and compute the average wait

Medium

House Listing

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

Medium

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

Image Rotator

Develop methods in the ImageEditor class to rotate an image by 90 degrees and 180 degrees.

Hard

Image Smoothing Filter

Enhance the ImageEditor class by developing a smoothing filter that reduces noise in an image throug

Hard

ImageFilter: Edge Detection Filter

This question involves designing an ImageFilter class to perform edge detection on a 2D array repres

Hard

ImageFlipper: Horizontal Flip

This question involves designing an ImageFlipper class to perform a horizontal flip on a 2D array re

Easy

ImageRotator: 90-Degree Clockwise Rotation

This question involves designing an ImageRotator class that rotates a 2D array representing an image

Medium

ImageTransformer: Combined Horizontal Flip and 90-Degree Rotation

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

Hard

Inventory Management System

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

Hard

Inventory Manager

This question involves designing an InventoryManager class for managing stock levels in a retail set

Medium

Inventory Tracker

This question involves implementing an InventoryTracker class to manage product stocks and trigger r

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 Finder

This question simulates a library system that retrieves books by their ISBN. You will complete the f

Easy

Library Book Management

This FRQ focuses on managing a collection of library books. You will implement methods to sort books

Medium

Library Floor Navigation

In this question, you will analyze a library floor plan represented as a 2D array. Implement methods

Medium

LibraryCard Class Design

Implement the LibraryCard class as described above.

Medium

Local Event Scheduler

This question involves implementing an EventScheduler class to manage community events by adding and

Hard

MathUtilities Utility Class

Implement the MathUtilities class as described below.

Medium

Matrix Sum Calculator

This question involves writing methods to compute the sums of each row and column in a given matrix.

Easy

MatrixOperations Class

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

Extreme

Maze Navigator

The MazeNavigator class manages a maze represented as a 2D char array, where '#' represents a wall a

Extreme

Maze Solver

This question involves designing a MazeSolver class that finds a path through a maze represented by

Hard

Medical Imaging Tumor Scanner

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

Extreme

MedicalImage: Contrast Enhancement

This question involves designing the MedicalImage class to perform contrast enhancement on a graysca

Hard

Meteorological Observation Grid

This question involves processing a 2D grid of temperature observations. You will implement a method

Medium

Mobile App Notification System

Design a mobile app notification system using inheritance. Create an abstract Notification class wit

Easy

Mobile Phone

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

Hard

Movie Recommendation Engine

This question simulates a movie recommendation system. The MovieRecommender class stores movie title

Hard

Movie Showtime

This question asks you to design a MovieShowtime class to represent movie screening details.

Medium

Movie Theater Seat Reservation

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

Easy

Movie Ticket Sorter

Develop methods to sort movie showings by start time using selection sort and merge sort.

Medium

Music Playlist Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for music playlists.

Extreme

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 Simulator

This question involves developing a method to simulate a music playlist using an ArrayList. You will

Easy

MusicTrack Class Design

Implement the MusicTrack class as described above.

Medium

Network Packet Analyzer

This question involves analyzing network packet latencies using array processing techniques. You wil

Extreme

Office Layout Navigation

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

Easy

Online Course Enrollment

This question involves managing course enrollments in an online learning system. You will implement

Hard

Online Shopping Cart

This question asks you to design a ShoppingCart class to model a shopping cart in an online store.

Hard

Order Processor

This question involves designing an OrderProcessor class to manage online orders and calculate total

Hard

PacMan Maze Simulation

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

Extreme

Park Ranger's Patrol

This problem simulates a park ranger patrolling a park grid to monitor potential hazards.

Hard

Parking Garage Levels Analysis

The ParkingGarage class models a multi-level parking structure using a 2D array, where each row repr

Extreme

Parking Lot Grid Management

The ParkingLot class models a parking lot using a 2D boolean array where true indicates an occupied

Easy

PasswordValidator Utility Class

Implement the PasswordValidator class as described below.

Hard

Payment Processing Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for processing payments.

Easy

Payment Processing System

Design a payment processing system using inheritance and polymorphism. Create an abstract Payment cl

Medium

Pixel Image Filter

This question involves processing an image stored as a 2D array of grayscale pixel values (ranging f

Hard

PixelArt: Color Quantization

This question involves designing the PixelArt class to perform color quantization on an image. Imple

Hard

PolynomialEvaluator Utility Class

Implement the PolynomialEvaluator class as described below.

Extreme

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

Product Inventory System

This FRQ simulates a product inventory system. You will implement methods to sort an ArrayList of pr

Medium

Public Transit Scheduler

This question involves creating a TransitScheduler class to determine bus arrival times and update b

Medium

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 Listing Analyzer

Implement the sortListingsByPrice and searchListingByPrice methods in the ListingAnalyzer class.

Medium

Real Estate Listings

This FRQ simulates a real estate listings management system. You will implement methods to sort list

Hard

Recipe Ingredient Calculator

This question simulates scaling recipe ingredients for different serving sizes. The RecipeCalculator

Easy

RecipeOrganizer

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

Medium

Restaurant Order Scheduler

Implement methods to sort restaurant orders by order time and search for an order by its ID.

Hard

Restaurant Order System

This question asks you to design a RestaurantOrder class to manage orders in a restaurant.

Easy

Restaurant Table Reservation Grid

The ReservationSystem class uses a 2D boolean array to represent table reservations in a restaurant,

Easy

RestaurantOrder Class Design

Implement the RestaurantOrder class as described above.

Hard

Retail Inventory Manager

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

Easy

Retail Sales Analyzer

Develop a Retail Sales Analyzer to filter low sales and compute sales statistics.

Easy

Retail Store Sales Matrix Analysis

The SalesAnalyzer class manages sales data in a retail store using a 2D integer array, where each ro

Extreme

Ride Sharing App Matching System

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

Hard

Robot Controller

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

Medium

Robot Maze Navigation

This problem simulates navigating a robot through a maze with obstacles.

Hard

Robot Task Performance Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for robots performing various tasks.

Medium

Robot Vacuum Cleaner

This problem simulates a robot vacuum cleaner navigating and cleaning a room represented as a grid.

Medium

Room Temperature Monitor

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

Easy

Satellite Crop Field Analyzer

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

Hard

Seating Chart Organizer

This question involves analyzing a theater seating chart represented by a 2D boolean array, where tr

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

Sewer System Map Mapper

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

Extreme

Shape Area Calculator

Develop a shape hierarchy using inheritance. Create an abstract Shape class with an abstract method

Medium

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

Soccer Field Tactics Simulator

This question involves determining if a clear path exists between two points on a soccer field repre

Easy

Social Media Feed Filter

This question involves processing social media posts using an ArrayList. You will implement methods

Medium

Social Media Friend Finder

Implement the sortFriendsAlphabetically and searchFriend methods in the FriendFinder class.

Medium

Social Media Post Analyzer

This question examines the analysis of social media posts for specific hashtags. The PostAnalyzer cl

Easy

Social Media Post Analyzer

Determine the index of the most liked social media post from an array of like counts.

Easy

Social Media Post Scheduler

This question involves designing a PostScheduler class to manage the scheduling of social media post

Medium

Social Media Post Scheduler

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

Medium

Social Media Post Sorter

This question involves managing social media posts by sorting them based on the number of likes. You

Hard

Social Network Analyzer

This question involves designing a SocialNetworkAnalyzer class to analyze friendship networks and su

Extreme

Space Explorer Grid

This problem simulates a space explorer navigating a sector grid of space filled with obstacles and

Medium

Sports Equipment Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for modeling sports equipment usage.

Easy

Sports Statistics Tracker

This FRQ involves tracking sports statistics for a player. You will implement methods to sort game p

Easy

Sports Tournament Scheduler

Design a Sports Tournament Scheduler to update team points and determine the top team.

Extreme

StringAnalyzer Class

This question involves designing a StringAnalyzer utility class that performs various string manipul

Easy

StringManipulator Utility Class

Implement the StringManipulator class as described below.

Medium

StringParser Utility Class

Implement the StringParser class as described below.

Medium

Student Grade Analyzer

This question involves designing a StudentGradeAnalyzer class to process student scores. You will im

Medium

Student Grade Processor

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

Hard

Student Grades Analyzer

Analyze student grades using an ArrayList by computing the average and filtering failing grades.

Medium

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

Sudoku Validator

This question requires you to validate rows and columns in a Sudoku board represented as a 2D array.

Hard

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

Temperature Data Analyzer

Develop a Temperature Data Analyzer that manipulates an array of temperature readings.

Medium

TerrainMap: Elevation Smoothing

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

Easy

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

Tissue Culture Growth Simulation

This problem involves simulating the growth of tissue culture on a grid over time.

Hard

Traffic Accident Analyzer

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

Hard

Traffic Density Analyzer

Develop a Traffic Density Analyzer to process vehicle counts and compute average traffic at intersec

Hard

Traffic Flow Analyzer

This FRQ involves analyzing traffic data by managing vehicle count numbers. You will implement metho

Hard

Traffic Flow Analyzer

This question involves developing a TrafficFlowAnalyzer class to evaluate traffic data collected by

Medium

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 Monitoring System

In this question, you will process traffic data to determine if traffic conditions are safe. You are

Easy

Traffic Signal Controller

This question simulates a traffic signal controller. The TrafficSignal class cycles through signal s

Easy

TrafficMap: Route Highlighter

This question involves designing the TrafficMap class to highlight a route on a city grid represente

Medium

TrainTicket Class Design

Implement the TrainTicket class as described above.

Medium

Transportation Ticketing System

Design a ticketing system using inheritance. Create an abstract Ticket class with an abstract method

Easy

Travel Itinerary Planner

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

Medium

Travel Time Estimator

Develop a Travel Time Estimator to filter outlier travel times and compute the median travel time.

Hard

Underwater Drone Explorer

This question involves simulating an underwater drone exploring a 2D grid representing the ocean flo

Extreme

University Course

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

Medium

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

Vehicle Hierarchy System

Design a vehicle hierarchy using inheritance and polymorphism. Create an abstract Vehicle class and

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

Warehouse Pallet Organizer

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

Extreme

Warehouse Path Planning

This problem involves planning and verifying a route for a warehouse robot navigating through a grid

Extreme

Weather Data Analysis

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

Medium

Weather Data Analysis

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

Hard

Weather Data Analyzer

This question involves analyzing weather temperature data. You are to implement methods to compute t

Hard

Weather Data Analyzer

Analyze temperature readings by filtering out extreme values and computing the average of the valid

Easy

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 Station Data Analyzer

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

Medium

Weather Station Data Processor

This question requires you to process temperature data from a weather station using arrays. You will

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

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