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Small program that deals with dependencies to give the best possible outcome

Courses Code

Small program that show you what courses can be taken depending of prerequisites, the description of the problem is the following

Description

You are currently studying to complete a software development certification provided by an online education provider. The certification requires the completion of twelve online course units, which may or may not specify pre-requisite course units. In order to register for a new course unit, you must have already completed all pre-requisite course units before registering for the new course.

You decide to write a program that, given a list of courses and their pre-requisites, produces a possible order in which you may complete as many of the provided course units as possible, adhering to the pre-requisite requirements.

The following files are provided:

• A comma-seperated file containing course titles and unique ids, "courses.csv".
• A comma-seperated file containing course pre-requisites, by id, "prerequisites.csv".

How to run it

• On the project folder in the terminal run: mvn compile
• Then after it is compiled: mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="app.StartApp" -Dexec.args="prerequisites.csv courses.csv"

Also can be run directly from eclipse using the StartApp.class and adding the location of the files when requested by the program The program includes a testing package with some small tests