Library management system

This project is an interactive library management system with a command line interface. The program enables the importing of books and users from a file, and enables the system user to issue and return books. ¹.

Preview

Click here for a video preview of the program on YouTube

Tools and technologies used

• Programming language: Java 17
• Build tool: Maven
• Unit testing framework: JUnit 4.11

Java library packages and classes used

• SortedArrayList<E> -> to create sorted lists of books and users
• Comparable<E> interface -> to manage the ordering of books and users
• PrintWriter -> to send out a book return request by writing the request to a file
• File -> to retrieve the text file containing books and users to import
• Scanner -> for recording user input via the command line interface and reading a text file

The code has been commented to further explain the purpose of the classes and methods.

Getting started

1. Install Java and Maven

2. Download the code in a ZIP file or clone the repository

$ git clone https://github.com/kimberly-0/library-management-system.git

3. Open IO.java (located in src/main/java/kd) in an IDE

4. Scroll all the way down and run the main method

Footnotes

1. Disclaimer: All user data is fictional, no personal information is used in the program. ↩