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Academic Course Management

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

Easy

Airline Reservations System

This question involves designing an AirlineReservations class to manage seat reservations on an airp

Extreme

Airline Ticket Price Calculator

This question involves calculating airline ticket prices. You will implement methods to compute the

Easy

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

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

Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner

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

Medium

Bank Account

This question requires you to design a BankAccount class that models a simple bank account.

Hard

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

Bank Transaction Summarizer

Design a Bank Transaction Summarizer to sum deposits and filter withdrawals.

Medium

Battlefield Strategy Grid

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

Hard

Battlefield Troop Counter

The Battlefield class contains a 2D array of integers representing troop counts in different segment

Hard

Battleship Board Analysis

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

Easy

Battleship Board Scanner

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a Battleship game board to identify ship clu

Medium

Beverage Preparation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for beverage preparation.

Easy

Bike Sharing System

This question simulates a bike-sharing system. The BikeShare class maintains a HashMap to track the

Medium

Book Catalog Manager

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

Easy

Book Class Design

Implement the Book class as described above.

Easy

BudgetTracker

Design a BudgetTracker class that helps manage expenses by category.

Easy

Calendar Event Conflict Resolver

This question involves developing methods for a CalendarScheduler class that manages event schedulin

Medium

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

Campus Navigation Helper

This question involves finding the shortest route on a campus map represented as a 2D grid. You will

Medium

Car Class Design

Implement the Car class as described above.

Medium

Chat Message Thread Organizer

This question involves processing chat messages recorded in a forum thread. You will implement metho

Medium

ChatRoom

Design a ChatRoom class that simulates a messaging environment for users.

Medium

Chess Board Analyzer

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

Extreme

City Metro Routing

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

Hard

City Traffic Congestion

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

Hard

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

Coffee Shop Order

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

Easy

Converter Class

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

Easy

Course Enrollment Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for course enrollments.

Medium

CreditCardFormatter Utility Class

Implement the CreditCardFormatter class as described below.

Hard

Crop Health Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a farm field's crop health indices to evalua

Medium

Cryptography Tool

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

Medium

CurrencyConverter Utility Class

Implement the CurrencyConverter class as described below.

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

Digital Art Transformer

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

Hard

Digital Elevation Map Analyzer

This question involves analyzing a digital elevation map represented by a 2D array of integers. You

Extreme

Digital Image Edge Detector

Implement a method to detect an edge in a digital image represented as a 2D array of pixel brightnes

Hard

Digital Mosaic Generator

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

Extreme

Digital Poster Editor

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

Medium

Drone Delivery System

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

Extreme

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 Management

Develop an e-commerce order management system using inheritance. Create an abstract Order class with

Hard

E-commerce Order System

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

Medium

E-Commerce Product Sorter

Implement the sortProductsByName and searchProductByName methods in the ProductSorter class.

Medium

E-commerce Review Sorter

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

Medium

E-commerce Transaction Validator

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

Hard

E-Mail Filter

Filter an ArrayList of email messages to remove those containing the keyword 'spam'.

Medium

Educational Institution Application

Design an educational institution application system using inheritance. Create an abstract Instituti

Medium

Email Management System

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

Medium

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 Timesheet Processor

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

Medium

EnergyConsumption

Design an EnergyConsumption class that records daily energy usage and computes consumption statistic

Medium

Environmental Sensor Data Analyzer

Implement the sortReadings and findFirstOutlier methods in the SensorDataAnalyzer class.

Medium

Environmental Sensor Readings

Develop a sensor reading system using inheritance. Create an abstract Sensor class with an abstract

Medium

Environmental Sensor Readings

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

Medium

Event Registration System

This FRQ focuses on managing event registration data. You will implement methods to sort participant

Easy

Event Scheduler

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

Medium

Event Timer and Alarm

This question involves managing alarm times in a sorted ArrayList. You will implement a method to in

Easy

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

Financial Transaction Processor

Implement the sortTransactionsById and searchTransactionById methods in the TransactionProcessor cla

Extreme

Fitness Tracker

This question asks you to design a FitnessTracker class to represent the data collected by a wearabl

Hard

Fitness Tracker Data Analysis

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

Easy

Fitness Tracker Data Analyzer

This question requires you to develop a FitnessTracker class that processes daily step counts record

Medium

FitnessTracker

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

Easy

Flight Seating Planner

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

Medium

Flight Status Tracker

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

Medium

Forest Region Identifier

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a satellite image to analyze forest regions.

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

Gaming Leaderboard Management

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

Extreme

Garden Plot Watering Scheduler

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

Medium

Geographic Location Lookup

Develop search methods to filter cities based on population thresholds using linear and binary searc

Medium

GeometryHelper Utility Class

Implement the GeometryHelper class as described below.

Medium

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

Heat Map Cluster Detector

Implement methods to analyze a heat map grid. Determine if a cell is hot and compute the largest con

Medium

HeatMap: Smoothing and Normalization

This question involves designing the HeatMap class to process a 2D array of temperature readings. Im

Hard

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 Queue

Write two search methods to find patients by emergency level in a hospital queue.

Medium

Hospital Patient Record Management

This FRQ involves processing patient waiting times in a hospital. You will implement methods to sort

Hard

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

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

Image Edge Enhancer

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

Hard

Image Flipper

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

Medium

Image Smoothing Filter

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

Hard

ImageFlipper: Horizontal Flip

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

Easy

ImageFlipper: Vertical Flip

This question involves extending the ImageFlipper class to include a vertical flip method. Implement

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 Locator

This question involves searching for items in an inventory system. You will implement the searchItem

Easy

Inventory Management System

This question involves managing an inventory system. You need to implement methods that update inven

Medium

Inventory Management System

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

Hard

Inventory Manager

This question simulates inventory management in a warehouse. The Inventory class tracks items and th

Medium

InventoryManager

Design an InventoryManager class that tracks products and their quantities in a store.

Hard

Leaderboard Manager

Design a Leaderboard class that dynamically manages player scores and rankings.

Medium

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 Search

This question focuses on designing a Library class that stores Book objects. You will implement a me

Easy

Library Floor Navigation

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

Medium

Library Item Checkout Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for library item checkout.

Medium

Library Locator

Implement a method to locate the nearest library in a 2D city map grid.

Medium

Library Navigation Assistant

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

Medium

LogFormatter Class

This question involves designing a LogFormatter utility class for formatting and extracting informat

Medium

Logistics Delivery Routing

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

Hard

Matrix Sum Calculator

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

Easy

Maze Navigator

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

Hard

Maze Navigator

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

Extreme

Medical Image Processor

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

Extreme

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 App Notification System

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

Easy

MosaicMaker: Pixelation Effect

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

Medium

Movie Database Search

This question involves searching for movies by rating in a movie database. You will implement the se

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 Duration Analyzer

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

Easy

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

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

Easy

Music Playlist Simulator

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

Easy

Musical Instruments Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for musical instruments.

Medium

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

Ocean Floor Depth Mapping

The DepthMapper class records ocean floor depths in a 2D double array. Implement methods to determin

Hard

Ocean Pollution Detector

Analyze a 2D ocean pollution map to detect and segment polluted clusters.

Extreme

OceanSimulator: Wave Distortion

This question involves designing the OceanSimulator class to simulate wave distortions on a water su

Medium

Office Layout Navigation

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

Easy

Online Course Enrollment

This FRQ deals with managing course enrollment numbers for online classes. You will implement method

Easy

Online Quiz System

This question involves implementing a QuizManager class to manage quiz questions, add new questions,

Hard

Online Review Analyzer

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

Easy

Order Processor

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

Hard

Park Ranger Monitoring Layout

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

Easy

Parking Garage Levels Analysis

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

Extreme

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

ParkingLotManager

Design a ParkingLotManager class that tracks parked cars and available parking spots.

Easy

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

Personal Finance Calculator

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

Hard

Pixel Art Transformer

Implement a method that performs a transformation on pixel art by rotating it and applying a scaling

Hard

Pixel Image Filter

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

Hard

Planet Surface Rover Simulator

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

Extreme

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

Product Review Analyzer

This question involves analyzing product reviews by sorting them based on ratings. You will complete

Medium

Public Transportation Scheduler

This question requires you to write methods to compute bus wait times for public transportation. You

Medium

Race Times Analysis

This FRQ involves analyzing race times stored in an ArrayList. You will implement methods to sort ra

Medium

Race Timing Analyzer

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

Easy

Rainfall Data Processing

This question deals with processing a 2D array of rainfall data. The RainfallAnalyzer class stores r

Medium

Real Estate Listings

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

Hard

Recipe Scaler

This question involves implementing the RecipeScaler class with a method that scales ingredient meas

Easy

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 Order Processing

This FRQ entails managing restaurant orders represented as monetary amounts. You will implement meth

Medium

Restaurant Order Processing

This question involves managing a restaurant's order queue using an ArrayList. You will implement me

Medium

Restaurant Order Processor

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

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 Empty Shelf Detector

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

Easy

Retail Mall Floor Plan Analyzer

Implement a method to detect a cluster of food court cells in a retail mall floor plan grid.

Medium

Retail Store Sales Matrix Analysis

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

Extreme

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

Room Temperature Monitor

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

Easy

SatelliteImage: Grid Resizing

This question involves designing the SatelliteImage class to resize a 2D image grid by doubling its

Medium

Score Analyzer

This question involves implementing the ScoreAnalyzer class to compute average scores and count the

Medium

Seating Chart Organizer

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

Medium

SecurityCam: Blur Filter

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

Medium

Sensor Data Processor

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

Extreme

Smart City Parking Assistant

This question involves managing parking spot assignments in a smart city environment. You are to imp

Easy

Smart Home Energy Monitor

This question involves developing a smart home energy monitor that computes energy consumption. Impl

Easy

Smart Home Energy Monitor

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

Medium

Soccer League Ranking

This question involves managing a soccer league. You will implement methods for the SoccerLeague cla

Hard

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

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

Easy

Social Media Post Summaries

Design a social media content system using inheritance. Create an abstract Post class with an abstra

Easy

Social Network Analyzer

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

Extreme

SocialNetwork

Design a SocialNetwork class that manages user registrations and friend relationships.

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 Team Stats

Update player statistics by adjusting scores and identifying the highest scorer.

Extreme

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

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

StringAnalyzer Class

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

Easy

Student Class Design

Implement the Student class as described above.

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 Scores Analyzer

Implement the methods in the StudentScoreAnalyzer class.

Hard

Submarine Sonar Anomaly Detector

Implement a method to detect a linear anomaly pattern in submarine sonar data represented as a 2D gr

Extreme

Sudoku Validator

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

Hard

TeamStats

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

Extreme

TemperatureConverter Utility Class

Implement the TemperatureConverter class as described below.

Easy

Terrain Elevation Map

This question involves analyzing a terrain elevation map stored as a 2D array. Implement methods in

Hard

TerrainMap: Elevation Smoothing

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

Easy

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 Data Processor

Process hourly vehicle counts by identifying the peak hour and calculating the average count.

Hard

Traffic Density Analyzer

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

Hard

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

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

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

Vehicle Hierarchy System

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

Medium

Virtual Garden Planner

This question involves developing a method for a Virtual Garden Planner to select plants based on th

Easy

Warehouse Inventory Tracker

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

Medium

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 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 Pattern Recognition

Analyze a grid representing meteorological data to detect storm patterns. Implement methods that ide

Hard

Weather Station Data Processor

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

Medium

WeatherData Analyzer

This question involves designing a WeatherDataAnalyzer class to manage daily weather measurements an

Easy

WeatherReport Class Design

Implement the WeatherReport class as described above.

Medium

Wildlife Tracking System

Create a Wildlife Tracking System to manage animal species and their sighting counts.

Medium

Word Search Detector

This question simulates a word search puzzle pattern detection. Implement methods to locate a target

Easy

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