Addons for java assignment

CruelCoin

Good morning all.

For my main assignment for Java we are working on a program using WolframAlpha.

I would love to hear some suggestions as to what i could do for extra functionality.
The entire assignment is worth 100 marks, and the extra functionality section is worth 10 marks of that.

The program is to do the following:

1: Prompt user for question and send to WolframAlpha.
2: Return to user the answer returned, less all the gibberish. (Cleaned up asnwer)
3: Store questions asked to a .list file
4: Store answers for each question to .list file
5: Alert the user if they asked the same question already and return to them the answer for that question.

6: extra functionality for 10 marks.

I'm doing ok with the program as a whole, but would love to hear suggestions on what extra to bolt on!
(Not looking for code, ideas only)
Please give me beginner level stuff i can work on.

Cheers lads,

CC.

ChRoMe

CruelCoin wrote: »

Good morning all.

For my main assignment for Java we are working on a program using WolframAlpha.

I would love to hear some suggestions as to what i could do for extra functionality.
The entire assignment is worth 100 marks, and the extra functionality section is worth 10 marks of that.

The program is to do the following:

1: Prompt user for question and send to WolframAlpha.
2: Return to user the answer returned, less all the gibberish. (Cleaned up asnwer)
3: Store questions asked to a .list file
4: Store answers for each question to .list file
5: Alert the user if they asked the same question already and return to them the answer for that question.

6: extra functionality for 10 marks.

I'm doing ok with the program as a whole, but would love to hear suggestions on what extra to bolt on!
(Not looking for code, ideas only)
Please give me beginner level stuff i can work on.

Cheers lads,

CC.

What do you mean by "gibberish"?

CruelCoin

ChRoMe wrote: »

What do you mean by "gibberish"?

Hi,

Sorry, should have worded that better.

When you ask a question such as "What is the meaning of life"

The answer comes back in the form of:
<section><title>Input interpretation</title><sectioncontents>Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything</sectioncontents></section><section><title>Result</title><sectioncontents>42
(according to Douglas Adams' humorous science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)</sectioncontents></section>

I need to pare that down to:
42 (according to Douglas Adams' humorous science-fiction novel The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

Tar.Aldarion

Strip things inside <> using regex

CruelCoin

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

Strip things inside <> using regex

Cheers, will be doing that.

Can i ask for a few suggestions on extra functionality for 10 marks?

Something that will add to the program beyond points 1-5 in my OP.

CC.

Tar.Aldarion

Will have a think about it, different formats for the answers? Perhaps something simple and graphical?

chrislad

It doesn't have to be features as such. Maybe used Model-View-Controller pattern to separate the business logic from the display so it could easily be converted to an JSP page/App/etc

Thoie

Possible additions:

• Make the feature a Chrome/Firefox addon, so that you press a button in your browser and the prompt appears.
• Include option (tickbox) to return the first 3 Google responses as well
• Option to export all questions/answers to Excel/Word/CSV/Text
• Send a tweet saying "I just searched for xxx on Wolfram Alpha" (I have no idea why anyone would want to do that, but Amazon thinks I'd like to tweet all my purchases, so maybe it's a thing people like)
• Display links to the related queries as well

They're just some ideas - no idea how easy or hard they'd be for you.

CruelCoin

Thoie wrote: »

Possible additions:

• Make the feature a Chrome/Firefox addon, so that you press a button in your browser and the prompt appears.
• Include option (tickbox) to return the first 3 Google responses as well
• Option to export all questions/answers to Excel/Word/CSV/Text
• Send a tweet saying "I just searched for xxx on Wolfram Alpha" (I have no idea why anyone would want to do that, but Amazon thinks I'd like to tweet all my purchases, so maybe it's a thing people like)
• Display links to the related queries as well

They're just some ideas - no idea how easy or hard they'd be for you.

Hi Thoie,

Point 3 of yours sounds like something i could do.

Cheers,

CC.