Lab 1390 - Cemetery

Description

Find the average of life of people from Little Carter Lane who were buried at St. Mary Magdalene Cemetery, Old Fish Street, City of London during the period January 5, 1813 to July 10, 1853. A key part of this project is to develop a Tombstone class to record information about each internee and a Cemetery class to hold all the information about the residents of the cemetery.

Here is the start of the cemetery record data file:

         ST MARY MAGDALENE OLD FISH STREET CITY OF LONDON
             Burials 5th Jan 1813 - 10th July 1853
             
NAME                     BURIAL DATE AGE  RESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
-----------------------  ----------- ---  ----------------------------
John William ALLARDYCE   17 Mar 1844 2.9  Little Knight Ryder Street
Frederic Alex. ALLARDYCE 21 Apr 1844 0.17 Little Knight Ryder Street
Philip AMIS              03 Aug 1848 1    18 1/2 Knight Rider Street
Thomas ANDERSON          06 Jul 1845 27   2, Bennet's Hill
Edward ANGEL             20 Nov 1842 22   Crane Court Lambeth Hill
Sarah ANGELL             09 Oct 1836 42   Lambeth Hill
.....

The age field in this file is of this format:

Implementation

The TestCemetery.java code should instantiate a Cemetery object, and the Cemetery constructor should read the cemetery.dat data file and instantiate a Tombstone object for each burial record. Use an ArrayList to hold the Tombstone objects. Then the test program should ask for a list (as an ArrayList) of everyone from Little Carter Lane. Finally, using an iterator, the average age should be calculated. Report your answer to one decimal place.

Files

cemetery.dat Burial records text data file.
EasyReader.java Easy Reader java source.