SeatingArrangement

🪑 Seating Arrangement System — Java Automation Tool

💡 Inspiration

Organizing seating for exams, events, or training sessions manually is time-consuming and error-prone. We wanted to automate this using Java — enabling fast, rule-based seating plans with minimal inputs.

🔧 How We Built It

• Built entirely in Java using Swing for the GUI interface.
• Handled student input data via file handling and 2D arrays.
• Implemented seating logic to:
  • Avoid friends or duplicates seated next to each other
  • Distribute students evenly across rows/columns
  • Output the final arrangement in a clean, scrollable table
• Exported seating charts to files for records or printing.

✨ Features

• Automated seating layout generation
  
• GUI-based input for student names and constraints
  
• Rule-based logic (e.g., avoid adjacent friends)
  
• Exports final arrangement to .txt or display table
  
• Simple, clean UI with Java Swing
  

🧩 Challenges Faced

• Managing conflicting constraints like max capacity and friend separation
  
• Validating input data for duplicates or formatting issues
  
• Handling edge cases (odd number of students, last row handling)

📚 What We Learned

• GUI development with Java Swing
  
• Efficient use of 2D arrays and HashMaps for mapping and logic
  
• Clean separation of logic, input, and UI layers
  
• Real-world use case implementation of object-oriented design
  

🔗 Try It Out

GitHub Repository

Built With

• data-structures-(2d-arrays
• eclipse
• file-handling
• hashmaps)
• java
• oop