🌱 Green Echoes – Climate Education Platform

Green Echoes is a Java OOP project built for the Object-Oriented Programming (ITS63304) course at Taylor’s University.

It’s an educational application that raises awareness about climate change through interactive modules, basic simulations, and user-focused features.

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📘 About This Project

• 🎯 Designed to make climate-change information clear, structured, and interactive
• 🌍 Combines education, awareness, and simple data modelling in one application
• 💻 Built as a group project, following good coding practices and documentation
• 🧩 Uses multiple modules (authentication, information hub, calculators, etc.) to showcase real OOP design

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🛠️ Tech & Tools

• ☕ Language: Java (JDK 17+)
• 🧱 Paradigm: Object-Oriented Programming (encapsulation, modularization, abstraction)
• 🖥️ GUI: Java Swing (JFrame, JTextField, JButton, JOptionPane)
• 📦 Data Structures: Arrays, multidimensional arrays, ArrayList
• 🧮 I/O & Logic: Scanner for console input, control flow (loops, conditions, switch)
• 🧰 IDE: Apache NetBeans IDE 19

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⚙️ What This Application Does (High Level)

• 🔐 Provides a login & sign-up system for normal users and admins
• 📚 Offers a structured information hub on climate topics
• 🧮 Includes a carbon footprint calculator based on walking distance
• 🌦️ Simulates real-time environmental alerts with region-based weather data
• 📝 Allows users to give feedback and interact with simple community elements
• 🧠 Contains a quiz module to reinforce learning about climate change

(Detailed feature explanations are available in the report in /docs/.)

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🎓 What I Learned / Achieved

• ✅ Applied OOP concepts in a real, multi-module Java application
• ✅ Integrated GUI (Swing) with console-based logic in a single project
• ✅ Practised input validation and error handling to make the app more robust
• ✅ Worked with arrays and collections to manage structured and dynamic data
• ✅ Strengthened team collaboration, documentation, and project organization
• ✅ Gained experience modelling real-world problems (climate, carbon footprint, weather) in code

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💡 Technical Skills Demonstrated

• Java application development (console + GUI)
• Object-Oriented Programming (class design, modular architecture)
• Java Swing UI design and event handling
• Data structures: arrays, multidimensional arrays, ArrayList
• Input handling, validation, and user flow design
• Basic simulation and modelling of real-world data
• Writing clear technical documentation (report + README)

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Thanks for checking out Green Echoes! 🌍✨
Feel free to explore the code, docs, and screenshots in this repository.