Java programming-days alive calculator

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Java Programming

The context for this assignment (all parts) is a ‘Days Alive Calculator' - a small desktop application
for calculating the number of days someone has been alive based on the date of birth and a second
date, which may be today's date or some other date. The program will allow the user to input the
date of birth and a second date, then calculate and display the number of days a person has been
alive.
This assignment will test your knowledge of and skills in writing application software for a
particular task, understanding the business rules of a particular problem, coding these in a computer
program, developing a graphical user interface, connecting to a file on disk and connecting to an
SQL database from within the program. As such, the assignment requires you to integrate and
synthesise what you have learnt so far, in order to design and create a correctly working solution.
For this assignment, you will use the Java programming language and development will be on the
Eclipse IDE platform as practised in the computer lab classes. This assignment consists of several
stages, with different requirements for undergraduate students in 4478 Introduction to IT and for
graduate / postgraduate students in 8936 Introduction to IT G.
Stage 1: A simple console program (no GUI)
Stage 2: The same but wrapped in a GUI
Stage 3: Input comes from a text file - read only once, then information stored in a suitable
data class, array, etc.
Stage 4: Input comes from an SQL database file.

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