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Shipping Warehouses

In this project, students will use ArrayLists and classes to create a set of shipping warehouses for a new company. Students will need to research population density to optimize their design and can compete against their classmates for the most optimal warehouse placement.

Medium

4 Hours

High School

Project Description

Background

With the growth of online shopping, Internet based companies are increasingly battling for sales.  While price can be a factor, many companies such as Walmart and Amazon are now competing to find quicker ways to ship products to consumers.  If one company can get you the product tomorrow, you are more likely to buy from them over another company that will only get it to you the day after tomorrow.

You have been hired by The Congo Company, a new start up online merchant that has ambitions to one day be larger than Amazon. First, they need to build out some warehouses and a back-end program that can find the closest warehouse to a customer and determine the number of days it takes for a package to reach them.

Program

You will be creating the back-end program for The Congo Company. Your program will consist of 3 classes and you will need to do some research to find where the population densities are in the US.

Project Demo

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