ESc 014

Objectives

• Review the major concepts you've already learned from ESc 013
• Practice the switch statement

Your Mission

Your program will read in a file containing information about how many boxes of cookies each girl scout sold. After that, your program will display a menu of different statistics that the user can see. This menu should let the user do any of the following:

• see the full list of girl scouts and the number of cookies each one sold
• see which girl scout sold the most boxes
• see if any girl scout sold the majority of the cookies (more than half the total number of boxes) and, if so, show the name of that girl scout. If no majority exists, then that should be told to the user.
• quit from your program

The user should be able to pick an option from this menu, see the results, and then be returned to the menu to pick another option.

Sample Output

Please make a selection:
1. Show stats for all girl scouts
2. Show girl scout who sold most boxes
3. Show girl scout with majority (if any)
4. Quit

Make your selection: 1
Andrea: 7
Barb: 48
Candice: 11
Deidra: 10
Eileen: 5

Please make a selection:
1. Show stats for all girl scouts
2. Show girl scout who sold most boxes
3. Show girl scout with majority (if any)
4. Quit

Make your selection: 3
Barb sold the majority.

Please make a selection:
1. Show stats for all girl scouts
2. Show girl scout who sold most boxes
3. Show girl scout with majority (if any)
4. Quit

Make your selection: 4
Thanks for using the Girl Scout Manager
Press any key to continue

Your output doesn't have to look exactly like the above, but it gives you a good idea of how your program should work. Feel free to give more detail than I have above. For example, when the user asks for the majority, you may want to print the number of boxes the person with the majority sold along with the total number of boxes sold between all the scouts.

The Details

• Data file. The input file, which you can download from the Course Materials section of BlackBoard, consists of names of girl scouts, one name on each line. For this assignment, you may assume that we are dealing with a particular scout troup containing five scouts: Andrea, Barb, Candice, Deidra, and Eileen. Each time a scout's name appears in the input file, that scout has sold 1 more box of cookies.

• Structures. You must use at least one array in your program (feel free to use more). This array will contain the total number of boxes sold by each scout. Hence, each place in the array will contain one particular girl scout's total.

• Functions. You need at least five functions in your program, though feel free to use more. The five required ones are:
  1. a function to read in the input file and calculate the number of boxes sold for each scout. As mentioned, you may assume that the five names listed above will be the only ones appearing in this file.

     Extra Credit alert: it would be cooler if this function worked for any input file, regardless of how many scouts there were or what their names were. You may assume that a troup contains no more than 12 girl scouts.

  2. a function to display the main menu to the user and process the user's choices by calling the appropriate function below. You are required to use a switch statement when processing menu choices.

  3. a function to find the scout who sold the most cookies. This should be called by the menu function.

  4. a function to find the scout who sold the majority of the boxes or determines that no majority exists. This function should be called by the menu function.

  5. a function to print each scout's name along with the total number of boxes she sold. This function should be called by the menu function.

Grading

This assignment is worth 50 points, divided as follows:

• 25 pts for your output. Your program must be both correct and complete.
• 25 pts for your design. Good design includes good documentation (opening comment block, good formatting, meaningful variable names, etc. worth 10 pts), good C++ language usage (worth 10 pts) and good testing of your code (worth 5 pts.) As in ESc 013, you should append your test case results as comments at the end of your source code.

Remember to turn in both a paper and an electronic copy of your project on BlackBoard, just like you do for labs. Name your file with your FULL NAME along with the assignment number (e.g. chrisfernandes_hw1.cpp)

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