Capstone Project 1.5

Due:

March 3rd at 11:59pm

Summary:

I understand that some of you need more practice is programming. Our original project for the dean's office fell apart. Apparently the admissions office has a solution already. So we will work on this project instead. This will give you a small project to work on with tests and the opportunity to put together a small working program where you have to investigate the best approach and some of the tools you need to use on your own. (so your learning outcomes include 'lifetime learning' and "exploring design tradeoffs)

Details:

Hacker News is one of a few places on the web that is widely used by software and technical professionals to get curated technical news. However, one can quickly get lost in the rabbit hole since so much news shows up there. So you are going to write a command line program to query hacker news about a users chosen keywords, and filter only articles that have been posted in the last week, which have more than N points (for a value of N which is chosen by the user.) When an article meets these criteria, put up a toast like notification on the screen. Run the query at least every half hour

Nitty-gritty:

Write this program in either

Java (target whatever version is on the university computers)
or python (you can target any version of python 3.4+)
write it to be cross platform on desktop machines
if you are using python, for the notifications look at ntfy https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ntfy

if you are using ntfy - the docs are terrible you will want to
```
import ntfy
```
and then
```
ntfy.notify(<message>, <heading>)
```
note there are two more optional parameters that you can use if you want.

if using python also consider beautifulsoup4 https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ for the web scraping
if using java consider jsoup for the web scraping.
If using java consider desktop notify for the popups
Ok After playing around with this I want to really point you at the hacker news API site - read it, learn it understand it, The hacker news API docs https://hn.algolia.com/api
then read about parsing json

include in your zipped submission at least two user stories and a tests file using junit/unittest which unit and functional tests which show your code to work and be error free.