Word Dictionary - Software Development Project 1

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Introduction
Objectives
Project requirements
Benefits
Code concept
How to use
Limitations
Future plan
Conclusion

Today, As a novice software developer, we are going to
present our first software development project before you.
We designed a Word Dictionary. Java development kit has
been used for our project since it is interpreted and
dynamic. Java is related to C++, so we have had some
advantages. While studying and working in different levels,
we frequently come across inconveniences with
Engineering vocabulary. So, we thought of designing a
software which is user friendly and flexible. Our
Dictionary serves this purpose. We have finished here, but
our vision is to expand this project further.
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Being a pure object oriented programming language, JAVA is
reliable. Hence, it is advantageous to develop a software in
JAVA. While developing the project we aimed:
 To make interface and graphics based program using the
facilities of Swing components.
 To find out the meaning of a complex Engineering
related word.
 To collect new words in the dictionary.
 To implement the program using two basic features of
programming; those are File and String operation.

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 Platform: Java development tool-SDK 1.6
 IDE: Eclipse
 For building GUI: We have used Swing components and
with the resources of Javax.swing package we developed our
interface in a better way.
 For reading a word from file : We utilized java.io
package which provides its reading facilities.
For the expansion of our project which we will describe
later. JDBC and java.sql package can be used.

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 Easy to find out the meaning of a word.
 To make the program flexible, there are options to add new
words and their meanings.
 Very simple and easy to handle for the user.
 To introduce a well GUI based interface.

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Code ConceptCode Concept
 At first, we have created a jframe which contains two buttons
and the actions are perform as to search and add a word.
 Then, we used the inner separate frames - each of which
contains text fields according to their functions.
 For writing, we have used bufferwriter and filewriter
method.
 For reading, we have used scanner method.

 We have used line by line checking procedure. For each input
there will be a unique output line. While adding a word, if the
output is more than one line and as it is saved in the output
file then the input and output will mismatch. To handle this,
we have replaced new line by “~” in our code.
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 At the very beginning a window will appear for the user to
choose option of search word and add word.

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Interface for searching word
 If user chooses the “Search Word” button the following
interface will appear.

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Interface for adding word
 If user chooses the “Add Word” button, the following
interface will appear.

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LimitationsLimitations
 Though it is very simple for the user to handle, it has some
limitations as well.
 Here, we have used two text files for the word rooms as
aforementioned - the Input text file and the Output text file.
As a result, the searching method decreases the time
efficiency of the software, frustrating the major development
purpose of a software.

Considering it as our first software development project, this is
merely a word dictionary. But our plan is :
To expand this project as a data dictionary, the data
containing quality will be made brilliantly by using database
which employs the procedure data modeling.
To meet present day’s requirements, it is more effective in
mobile, known as J2ME where the system stores the dictionary
data with the application in the .jar file.
Obviously the system demands fast searching code.
To evaluate the same project in one text file for input and
output for increasing time efficiency.
To update our software as possible as we can.
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Basically, we worked out with some string operations. For
code simplicity, we have used two text file which decrease the
time efficiency. By minimizing the limitations, an integrated
code might evolve which might be proven really useful for the
users and make our endeavour a meaningful one.

Word Dictionary - Software Development Project 1

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