So for the past few weeks I have been working on a GUI based project on which I continue to get stuck and test solutions. This is the most ambitious project I have every worked on and I now believe that I am going to have to put it on hold, not b/c of not being able to figure out how to code it but b/c of the resources that doing it properly would require:
SPECS:
I wanted to create an application that would predict the winners of MLB games in the 2014 year. I created a proprietary algorithm that I would like to build on in the future.
Use Swing to create an application with multiple screen. Utilizes JTables, JButtons, JFrames, JToolBars and multiple Layout managers. I learned along the way that the layout manager called GridBagLayout is probably the most customizable and functional of all.
Scrape data from a number of websites, save the data, import into a db, display in GUI. I used HTML Cleaner to do the site scraping which is pretty easy once you get the hang of it. I downloaded SQL Express and built my local db.
It was at this point that I realized that to do what I REALLY wanted to do with this project, I would need more back-end resources like a constant, reliable server to host SQL. The reason that I am abandoning this project temporarily is b/c I feel that I need to get back to more JAVA related development and I am beginning to spend a lot of my time in SQL with which I am already pretty familiar.
I will keep you up to date on my next project, I have a few things in mind.
