Grad Software Engineering Project 1.5

Due:

March 14th at 11:59pm [don't let the apparent time fool you, you have break and your exam in this period so even though this should (if you did a solid job on part 1) be not too painful; don't wait]

Summary:

You will get the chance to continue your odyssey in investigating apis, reading documentation, writing a program and writing tests for the program by extending your program. Hopefully you will get a more complete feel for the value of automated tests.

Details:

Take your project 1 and add a feature to it. You will create a map and plot the locations and number of job sites on the map in such a way that users can tell if there are more jobs in that area or less than last year.

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 3.5+)

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Some User Stories that you should satisfy.

"As a job seeker thinking of moving I what to know where people are hiring"
"As job seeker thinking of moving, I want to know if there is an increasing or decreasing number of jobs in an area"

Some additional requirements and hints.

As before, write it to be cross platform on desktop machines, Java and Python should do that anyway, but any external libraries need to work on linux especially.
use one of the jetbrains IDEs to do your work. We have them installed here at the university and you can get the full professional suite of tools for free as students so long as you are only using them for student work
Use the most recent "Who's hiring" for the current data, use the previous year version of the same data to compare to see if the area has gained or lost jobs.

make it clear from the map drawings how many jobs are in a particular area and if there are more than last year or less.

Some hints to take a look at (you can of course use other approaches so long as they work):

Java users: Google's Monigeo package looks easy to use.

for lat/lon try this tutorial

Python users who used mayplotlib should look at Basemap maybe look at this tutorial

for lat/lon have a look at geopy - the version in pypi works painlessly even if the version on github currently has a failing build.

Write additional tests for your new project. As a hint for those of you new to automated testing, begin investigating the API you will use for this project, by writing tests for the API

Submission:

Zip your entire project directory and submit the whole thing on blackboard.

Include in your zipped submission a file telling me how to run your tests using junit/unittest/pytest which unit and functional tests show your code to work and be error free.