Complete the Programming of a Java Console Application Using Methods

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Complete the Programming of a Java Console Application Using Methods In this assessment, you will complete the programming of a Java method in a console application that registers students for courses in a term of study. The application does compile and does run, but it does not produce the expected result as stated in its requirements. You can use either the Toolwire environment or your local Java development environment to complete this assignment.

You have been hired to complete the source code of this method such that the application meets its stated requirements. Specifically, your added code should:

• Validate the user course selection for registration against the given registration business rules

The requirements of this application are as follows. The application is register students for courses in a term of study.

The assumptions used by the application are:

• Student enters only integers to select courses for registration from a menu. No data type validation of the user menu selection is checked or required

• Each course carries 3 credit hours

• The program terminates only when the student closes it

The program must follow these registration business rules:

• No registration of other courses not displayed by the program

• No registration more than once for the same course

• No registration for more than 9 credit hours (e.g. no more than 3 courses)

The application uses Java methods for its implementation. Students select from a menu of courses for which they wish to register. The program then validates the user selection against the registration business rules. If the selection is valid, the program prints out a confirmation message. Otherwise, the program prints an error message. In all cases, the program also prints out the current list of registered classes. The program terminates when the user does not want to register for classes any more.

The program uses the Java method ValidateChoice() to validate the user integer menu selection and acts accordingly. If the user selection is valid against the registration business rules, the program displays a registration confirmation message to the student for the selected course.

Otherwise, the program displays an error message explaining the reason of the invalidation of the selection. The application maintains and displays a current list of registered courses.

Use these course codes, in this order, to test your application:

• IT2230 IT3349 IT2230 IT4782 IT4784

Successful completion of this assignment will display a valid message or an invalid message, with reason, for the selected course code. In addition, the application should display and

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update current list of registered courses. Your program interaction should look like the sample interaction video in the resources, “Console Register for Course Result”.

Follow these steps to complete this assignment:

1. Unzip the NetBeans project zip file from resources(U6A1_ConsoleRegisterForCourse.zip) and load it into your NetBeans IDE.

2. Complete the application programming (the ValidateChoice() ) to meet the stated requirements.

3. Compile and test your application using the provided input data.

4. Make sure to document the result of your testing by taking screenshots of the result of running your application similar to the provided sample output. Five screenshots are required for this assignment (one for each course code of the provided input data)

5. Explain the approach you took to complete this assignment and the major decisions you made. As part of your explanation, be sure to identify the fundamental Java constructs you used that were specific and relevant to your submitted program.

Deliverables Use the submission template (WeekXSolutionSubmissionTemplate.docx) to complete and submit your deliverables. Your deliverables in the attached submission template should include:

1. Your work (Netbeans project zip file + copy of *.java source code)

2. Screenshots of the result of testing your application. See the examples in the interaction video.

3. Explain the approach you took to complete this assignment and the major decisions you made. As part of your explanation, be sure to identify the fundamental Java constructs you used that were specific and relevant to your submitted program.