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  Displays the project title, university branding, and a clean menu interface.

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  The main interface allows users to choose between book listing, management, borrowing, returning, and ranking features.

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  Lists all books currently in the library system, including their titles, authors, availability status, and internal IDs for reference.

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  Filters and displays only those books that are currently available, making it easy for users to find borrowable titles.

📚 QUB Library Management System

A Java console-based library management system for Queen's University Belfast.

📚 Project Overview

This project is a Java application designed to manage library books, enabling users to:
✅ View available books
✅ Borrow and return books
✅ Add and remove books
✅ List books by status
✅ Rank books based on popularity

The project consists of two parts:

• Part 1: Core functionality with a standard text-based console menu.
  
• Part 2: A more interactive console version using CSC1029Console.jar.
  

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🏢 Project Structure

Assessment2/
│── bin/            # Contains compiled .class files and JAR file
│   ├── csc1029_a2.jar  # JAR file for the project
│── part01/         # Core functionality
│── part02/         # Enhanced console-based version
│── Images/         # Book cover images (max 10)
│── README.md       # This file

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🚀 Getting Started

🔧 Prerequisites

• Java 17 or higher
  
• Eclipse IDE (recommended)
  
• csc1029_a2.jar added to the build path (for Part 2)
• The compiled .jar file is located in the bin/ directory.

👅 Installation

1. Clone the repository:
   bash git clone https://github.com/yourusername/Assessment2.git cd Assessment2
2. Open the project in Eclipse.
   
3. For Part 2, add csc1029_a2.jar to the build path:
   
   • Right-click project → Build Path → Configure Build Path → Add External JARs → Select csc1029_a2.jar
     
4. Run the application by executing QUBLibrary.java (Part 1) or QUBLibraryUpdated.java (Part 2).

⚠️ Notes

• Ensure you have Java installed (java -version to check).
• If you encounter any issues, try rebuilding the project or running from the src/ folder.

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📌 Features & Functionality

🎯 Core Features (Part 1)

• List all books in the library
  
• Filter books by availability (Available, On Loan, Withdrawn)
  
• Add a new book (validating input constraints)
  
• Remove a book (if not on loan)
  
• Borrow and return books
  
• Display the most popular books
  

🎨 Enhanced Features (Part 2)

• Uses Console class for improved UI
  
• Colorful and structured output
  
• Displays book cover images
  

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🛠 Implementation Details

📂 Key Classes

• Book → Represents a book with attributes like title, author, ISBN, edition, and price.
  
• LibraryBook → Extends Book, adding borrowing functionality and tracking status.
  
• Library → Manages a collection of books, handling borrow/return operations.
  
• Lendable → Interface for lending functionality.
  
• QUBLibrary → Console-based interface for interacting with the system.
  
• QUBLibraryUpdated → Enhanced version using Console.
  

🏠 Design Constraints

• Uses an ArrayList for book storage
  
• Implements sorting & searching algorithms manually
  
• No external databases or file storage
  

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🐝 License

This project was developed as part of the CSC1029 module at Queen’s University Belfast.

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🤝 Contributors

• Noel Varghese Koshy (GitHub Profile)
  

Built With

• java