Seat saver is a variation of PartyPlanner - I had to move and create a new Repo due to some conflicting versions.

Mission: Your task is to design a software solution to place 10 people at each of 10 tables. It will require you to consider the following guidelines:

1. No more than 10 people at a table
2. No more than 100 people may attend the event
3. No more than 2 people from any company may sit at the same table
4. A file with 90 people will be provided, part of your task will be to use code to:
   • load the file (use buffer, scanner class or other methods
   • read in each line of text
   • parse out the string/text into the various elements or data types
5. A second text/csv file exists -(companies.txt)- but you can manually build a list of comanies and their corresponding ID's.
6. Then, Use a scanner class to permit users to manually (apply) /register to attend.
   • users requesting to attend should not break rules of
     1. total attendance numbers (once total num=100, stop)
     2. max num of people from each company at a table

There are several ways to approach this problem. Consider how you will design an algorithm to:

• think about how to create 'tables' and check for:
  • number of people at the table?
  • number of people from each company at the table
  • total number of people at the banquet
• (how you will) read and/or parse the data
• organize the data into - for example people objects
• print table 'rosters' (list of each person at the different tables)

BufferedReader csvReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(pathToCsv));
while ((row = csvReader.readLine()) != null) {
  String[] data = row.split(",");
  // do something with the data
}
csvReader.close();

Here's a link to the code above, with more explanations..
https://stackabuse.com/reading-and-writing-csvs-in-java/ Notice that the while loop both reads in a new line - and at the same time checks to see if there is a next line to read If there is a new line, 'row' is split using a delimiter ',' into elements of an array from there - you could parse elements of that String array into the various parts of a Person object, hint parseInt might be helpful. Still getting an error?

Did you include supporting files like import java.io.*?
did you add 'throws IOException' to the main header?

Other items to consider

• People as objects - create a People or Person class, with certain variables
• Add them to a list (say, an arraylist) of Person objects
• Wait to add ALL the people, both from the file load, and from the manual registration with a Scanner class
• If you placed people by company first - would you be able to check if that company has reached their 'max' of 20?
• Don't forget to save/store you work -
• It would be nice to give the user the option to print out a list of each table, maybe even save to multipl files??

This is fun! Recall that this is designed to be a chance to stretch your skills and see how you do with some unknowns. I am interested to see your progress and evolution in this project--

50% of your grade will come from the eveolution of your project each day, with regular commits, plenty of comments and a flow. A magical 180 or a remarkable explosion of code one day after 4 days of 20lines/day average would be cause for concern. Let's see how you approach, think and try to solve the problem. Show me your thinking!!