Assignment 10 - Hurricane Tracker

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Source

This is a nifty assignment from 2018 proposed by Phil Ventura. Source

Learning Outcomes

Reading and parsing data from a CSV file to display points on a map

Goals

The purpose of this assignment is to learn to 1. Read and parse data from a csv file 2. Manipulate a GraphAdjList object 3. Display several points on a map

Description

Tasks

Read a csv file containing Hurricane position data such as the data given here. Then map this data on a GridAdjList.

Read the csv File

Parse the csv file data and create a class for storing this data.

Build the Graph

Create a GraphAdjList
Add each data point to the graph as vertices if they are within a certain distance
Change the color of the points based on the hurricane's category.
Add edges between points in order from first to last.

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