CST8234- C Language Assignment 3

CST8234- C Language
Assignment 3
Problem statment:
In this assignment, you will build a registration system that will read the students' and
courses’ information from local files. It will also give the user the ability to store new
information.
This assignment is intended to get you to practise using file IO functions and user inputs.
Background Information:
This assignment is designed to help understand how to read from and write to text files in C.
You are given two files, Students.txt and Courses.txt, which contain some
information for existing students and courses in a school system.
Think of theses files as your database, you are going to read the information form it, and will
be storing any new information to it.
The system will give the user the chance to either display the currently existing information,
or add new information. All information will be coming from the local files mentioned above.
Requirements:
Write a program that achieves the following requirements:
1. The program should give the user a menu of action to choose from. These actions are
1. Display current students.
2. Display current courses.
3. Add a new student
4. Add a new course
2. When the user chooses to display current students, the program should read all the
information from the students file and display it neatly.
3. When the user chooses to display current courses, the program should read all the
information in the courses file and display it neatly.
4. If the user chooses to add a new student, the program should ask for the following
information:
1. The student ID
2. The first name
3. The last name.
5. The program should save the new student information to the students file, without
deleting any of the previous information.
6. If the user chooses to add a new course, the program should ask for the following
information:
1. The course code.
2. The course name, which could contain more than one word, i.e “C Programming
Language”.
7. The program should save the new course information to the course file, without deleting
any of the previous information.
8. The program MUST maintain the formats for the text file, keeping each student or course
information in a separate line and with the same order for each piece of information.
Design Requirements:
1. You must wright your code using 3 or more functions. Having the code only in main will
make you loose 2 points.
2. YOU MUST build your code using all build flags mentioned in the slides as will as ‘-w’
switch. Failing to do so will make you loose 1 point on the assignment.
3. Your code must close any open files and free any allocated memory when appropriate
before the end of the program.
Sample Output:
Submission instructions:
1. No late submissions are accepted.
2. You MUST work in a group of maximum 2 students to complete this assignment.
Individual work is NOT accepted.
3. You must submit the source code for the program you wrote.
4. Add all your files under a folder call “lastName-firstName-Assign2”, then Zip the folder
and submit the zipped folder only.
5. Make sure to submit all files required to compile and run the program on the instructor
machine without any errors.
6. DON’T submit any extra file. For example, the binary file (AKA object or output) files like
.exe or .o.
7. Add a Readme.txt file that contain each student name and student number.
8. Brightspace is configured to keep the last submission only. Please make sure your last
submission in the one you want to get marked.
9. All submission must be done on the main Brightspace shell, 19F_CST8234_010_ALL or
19F_CST8234_020_ALL, not the lab section one.