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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

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

Apartment Class Design

Implement the Apartment class as described above.

Easy

Bank Account Fee Calculator

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

Hard

Bank Transaction Explorer

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

Hard

Bank Transaction Summarizer

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

Medium

Battlefield Troop Counter

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

Hard

BattleGrid Analysis

In this question, you will analyze a battleship board represented as a 2D array. Implement methods i

Hard

Beverage Preparation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for beverage preparation.

Easy

Blueprint Analyzer

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

Extreme

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

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 Inventory Organizer

This FRQ focuses on organizing bookstore inventory data. You will implement methods to sort book tit

Extreme

Campus Map Path Finder

This question involves analyzing a campus map represented as a 2D array. Implement methods in the Ca

Hard

Car Class Design

Implement the Car class as described above.

Medium

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

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

CipherUtility Utility Class

Implement the CipherUtility class as described below.

Medium

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 Weather Report

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

Medium

Classroom Seating Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing classroom seating to determine the size of t

Easy

Concert Ticket

This question asks you to design a ConcertTicket class to represent tickets for a concert event.

Hard

Container Shipping Scheduler

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

Extreme

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

Cuisine Dish Preparation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for cuisine dish preparation.

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

DataFormatter Utility Class

Implement the DataFormatter class as described below.

Medium

DateCalculator Utility Class

Implement the DateCalculator class as described below.

Hard

Digital Elevation Map Analyzer

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

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

DigitalArt: Invert Colors

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

Easy

E-commerce Order System

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

Medium

E-commerce Order Tracker

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

Hard

E-Commerce Price Analyzer

This FRQ involves processing product prices for an e-commerce platform. You will implement methods t

Medium

E-Mail Filter

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

Medium

ECommerceOrderTracker

Design an ECommerceOrderTracker class that manages orders and tracks their statuses.

Medium

Election Results Processor

This question involves implementing an ElectionResults class to tally votes and determine the winnin

Hard

Election Vote Tally

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

Medium

Employee Salary System

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

Hard

Employee Schedules Organizer

Implement the sortShifts and searchShift methods in the EmployeeSchedule class.

Easy

Energy Consumption Tracker

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

Extreme

EnergyConsumption

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

Medium

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

Environmental Sensor Readings

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

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 Scheduling System

This question involves creating an EventScheduler class that manages event times stored in a sorted

Medium

Event Seating Analyzer

Implement a method to count horizontal contiguous sequences of empty seats in an event seating chart

Easy

Factory Production Line Monitor

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

Hard

Farm Crop Yield Predictor

This question involves predicting crop yield across multiple fields. You will implement methods to c

Easy

FileProcessor Class

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

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

Financial Portfolio Manager

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

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

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

Medium

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 Status Tracker

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

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

Forest Region Identifier

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

Hard

Fuel Consumption Tracker

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

Hard

Game Item Shop

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

Medium

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

GameBoardMirror: Invert Puzzle Board

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

Medium

Garden Layout Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a garden to analyze plant distribution patte

Hard

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

Geometric Shapes Hierarchy

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

Easy

GeometryUtil Class

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

Easy

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

Healthcare Appointment System

This question involves managing healthcare appointments. You will implement methods to schedule appo

Hard

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 Patient Queue

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

Medium

Hospital Patient System

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

Hard

Hospital Patient Wait Times

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

Medium

HTTPStatusHelper Class

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

Easy

Ice Cream Flavor Finder

This question involves analyzing an ice cream parlor’s flavor distribution grid. Implement methods t

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

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 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

Labyrinth Diagonal Pathfinder

This question focuses on diagonal traversal of a 2D array representing a labyrinth. Implement method

Medium

Lawn Mower Simulator

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

Easy

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 Management

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

Medium

Library Book Manager

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

Medium

Library Book Sorter

Implement two methods to sort library books by title using Bubble Sort and Insertion Sort.

Easy

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

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

Local Event Scheduler

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

Hard

MatrixOperations Class

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

Extreme

MatrixOperations Utility Class

Implement the MatrixOperations class as described below.

Extreme

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

Maze Solver

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

Hard

Messaging System Interface

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

Easy

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

Mobile Phone

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

Hard

Movie Database Search

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

Hard

Movie Rating Aggregator

This question involves writing a MovieRatingAggregator class that collects and processes movie ratin

Easy

Movie Ratings Analyzer

Compute the average rating from an ArrayList of movie ratings.

Easy

Movie Recommendation Engine

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

Hard

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 Manager

This question involves managing a music playlist that is maintained in a sorted order based on song

Medium

Music Playlist Organizer

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

Easy

MusicPlaylist

Design a MusicPlaylist class that manages a playlist of songs with basic playback controls.

Easy

MusicTrack Class Design

Implement the MusicTrack class as described above.

Medium

Ocean Pollution Detector

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

Extreme

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 Course Feedback Analyzer

Implement the sortFeedbackScores and searchFeedbackScore methods in the FeedbackAnalyzer class.

Hard

Online Quiz System

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

Hard

Online Shopping Cart

This question involves managing an online shopping cart. You will implement methods to compute the t

Medium

Online Shopping Cart

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

Hard

Online Store Feedback Analyzer

Develop an Online Store Feedback Analyzer to filter valid feedback and compute the median rating.

Easy

Online Survey Analyzer

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

Easy

Parcel Delivery Optimization

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

Easy

Park Ranger's Patrol

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

Hard

Parking Lot Manager

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

Medium

PasswordGenerator Class

This question involves designing a PasswordGenerator utility class that generates random passwords m

Hard

PasswordGenerator Utility Class

Implement the PasswordGenerator class as described below.

Extreme

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

Plant Growth Analysis

Design a plant growth analysis system using inheritance. Create an abstract Plant class with an abst

Medium

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

Product Price Sorter

Design and implement two sorting methods to order a list of products by price.

Hard

Product Review Analyzer

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

Medium

Production Quality Control

Assess production quality by counting defective items and identifying their indices.

Hard

Public Transit Scheduler

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

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 Analyzer

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

Medium

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

Restaurant Menu Sorter

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

Easy

Restaurant Order Processing

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

Medium

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 Mall Floor Plan Analyzer

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

Medium

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

Robot Maze Navigation

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

Hard

Robot Navigation Simulator

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

Hard

Robot Vacuum Cleaner

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

Medium

Satellite Crop Field Analyzer

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

Hard

Score Analyzer

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

Medium

Sea Temperature Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D float array representing sea surface temperatures to locate a h

Medium

Seating Arrangement Checker

This question involves checking seating arrangements represented as a 2D array. Implement methods in

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 Processor

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

Extreme

Shape Area Calculator

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

Medium

Smart City Parking Assistant

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

Easy

Smart Device Update Manager

Develop a smart device update manager using inheritance. Create an abstract SmartDevice class with a

Hard

Smart Home Energy Monitor

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

Easy

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 Engagement Tracker

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

Hard

Social Media Friend Search

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

Easy

Social Media Post

This question asks you to design a SocialMediaPost class to represent posts on a social media platfo

Extreme

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

SocialNetwork

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

Extreme

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 Tournament Scheduler

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

Extreme

Sports Tournament Scoreboard

The Scoreboard class tracks game scores in a sports tournament using a 2D array, where each row repr

Medium

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

StatisticsHelper Class

This question involves designing a StatisticsHelper utility class to compute basic statistical metri

Hard

StockTracker

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

Hard

StringAnalyzer Class

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

Easy

StringParser Utility Class

Implement the StringParser class as described below.

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 Search Database

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

Medium

Student Test Score Analyzer

This question involves analyzing student test scores by sorting and searching them. You will complet

Extreme

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

Temperature Grid Analysis

This question involves analyzing a 2D array of temperature readings from various sensors. Complete t

Easy

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

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

TimeConverter Utility Class

Implement the TimeConverter class as described below.

Easy

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 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 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

TrafficMap: Route Highlighter

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

Medium

Transportation Ticket Pricing Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for transportation tickets.

Easy

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

UnitConverter Utility Class

Implement the UnitConverter class as described below.

Easy

Vaccine Distribution Center Analyzer

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

Hard

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 Manager

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

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

This question simulates analyzing daily weather data. The WeatherAnalyzer class processes an array o

Medium

Weather Data Analyzer

This question involves analyzing weather data represented as a 2D array of temperature readings. You

Medium

Weather Data Analyzer

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

Easy

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

Wildlife Herd Counter

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

Medium

Word Search Detector

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

Easy

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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