Question

Project Description

You will build part of a college's course registration system (similar to WebReg, though considerably less complex). The system will keep track of a catalog of courses that students can take. It will allow the user (a student) to view and search the course catalog, and to add (register for) and drop (withdraw from) courses.

The following restrictions apply:

All courses meet only once per week, for one class period.

Days will be denoted by the following letters:
M - Monday, T - Tuesday, W - Wednesday, H - Thursday, F - Friday, S - Saturday. There are no Sunday courses.

Class periods (time slots) are numbered from 1 to 9.

A student cannot register for a course that is not in the catalog.

There is a limit on the number of courses a student may take in one semester.

There is NO explicit limit on the number of credits a student may carry in one semester.

A student cannot register for two courses that meet on the same day and time.

Objects Implementation (Phase 2)

Period.java contains the definition of a class called Period. A Period object simply defines what day and time slot a class meets. For example, if a class meets on Mondays in time slot 5 (M5), it would store the day as ‘M’ and the time slot as 5.

*****Implement and submit Period.java.*****

Make sure all of your fields are private and your method signatures are written exactly as defined below.

*You can assume that all parameters being passed into the constructors will be in their valid ranges.*

*You can also assume that the objects passed into the ‘equals’ or ‘compareTo’ methods will NOT be null.”

Period.java :

public Period(char day, int timeSlot)

days are all uppercase (look at the restrictions above for possible values)

time slot ranges from 1-9

getter methods for all of the variables passed into the constructor:

public char getDay() //returns the day of the week the course meets

public int getTimeSlot() //returns the time slot of the day the course meets

public String toString()return the period formatted as follows: “FirstLetterOfDay_TimeSlot” (no underscore)

ex: Tuesday, time slot 5 would return “T5”

public int compareTo(Period other)

compares the current period to another period

return values:

0 if two periods are equal

-1 if the current period comes before the other period in the week/day

1 if the current period comes after the other period in the week/day