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Part IA Flood Monitoring and Warning System
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*Lent Term 2026, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge*

Your team has been tasked with building the computational backend
(library) to a new real-time flood warning system for England. The
library should:

#. Fetch real-time river level data over the Internet from the
   `Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs data service
   <https://data.gov.uk/publisher/department-for-environment-food-and-rural-affairs>`__.

#. Support specified data query types on river level monitoring
   stations.

#. Analyse monitoring station data in order to assess flood risks,
   and issue flood warnings for areas of the country.

The mandated development practices are listed in the :ref:`Requirements`
section. The library is required to support specific query interfaces
(`API
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_programming_interface>`__),
as outlined in the :ref:`Deliverables` section, which form the *public
interface* of the library.  Another company has been contracted to build
a user interface using the prescribed public interfaces to the library,
hence they cannot be changed.


.. rubric:: Development team

Your development team is your laboratory group.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2
   :numbered:
   :caption: Project specification

   requirements
   deliverables

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   :numbered:
   :caption: Appendix: Getting started and assessment

   getting-started
   development_recommendations
   help
   advanced
   objectives_assessment


.. rubric:: Document license and copyright

These documents are licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.  See
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ for the license.

Copyright 2016-2025 by Garth N. Wells (gnw20@cam.ac.uk).


.. rubric:: Documentation repository

These documents are managed at
https://github.com/CambridgeEngineering/PartIA-Computing-Lent-doc.