Niche Holiday Calender

This is a student project for a undergraduate programming class

This is a student project for course CPSC210. It primarily does three things.

• Provides an overview of all days in a month and put them into a calendar view.

• Inform the user a niche holiday is happening when it is happening. and also provides some basic information about that niche holiday.

• Provide information of Niche Holiday about any date the user is curious of.

This program is designed for

• Anyone looking for some extra nicheness in their life.
• Anyone wishing to be able to provide fun facts in a party or gathering
• Anyone dedicating to celebrating a certain niche holiday but have memory so terrible so they can't memorize those themselves.

I decide to take on this project because it is something I will need in my life and I think it will do other people some help.

As a user, I would like to check if today is a niche holiday.

As a user, I would like to go to a date and see it's month.

As a user, I would like to go to check if a date I typed in is a niche holiday.

As a user, I would like to move to tomorrow and yesterday to see if they are niche.

As a user, I want to be able save my NicheGlossary to file, (if so I choose)

As a user, I want to be able to load my NicheGlossary from file (if I so choose)

As a user, I want to be able to remove a Niche Holiday from the Glossary

Citation:

Used JSON libraries from: https://github.com/stleary/JSON-java

Persistence package and its corresponding tests are largely taken from https://github.students.cs.ubc.ca/CPSC210/JsonSerializationDemo due to similarities in data types.

Phase 4: Task 2

Here is an instance of P2T2 opening the program(with pre-loaded glossary loading), adding and removing the 3-14 Pie Day:

" Wed Apr 12 18:36:44 PDT 2023 Loaded the default Glossary

Wed Apr 12 18:37:28 PDT 2023 Added: PIE Day 3-14

Wed Apr 12 18:37:37 PDT 2023 Removed: PIE Day 3-14 "

Phase 4: Task 3

Given more time, I will refactor the method printCalendar() in class NicheCalendarGUI into the class NicheDate because in GUI all it does is to produce a string and that should be a task for model instead of UI. I will likely also make a few more exceptions regarding to repeated attempts of adding NicheHoliday onto the same day in a year.

Also I will likely create a selection box in UI so the user will be able to pick the save file they want to load and save their holiday glossary and I can rewrite the default glossary as a json file instead of a NicheHoliday array that looks weird.