CST8234 - C Programming LAB 4

CST8234 - C Programming
LAB 4
LAB OBJECTIVE
By completing this lab, you will learn to:
• Use structs and pointer to structs.
• Defining structs as types.
• Reading user input into structs.
LAB INSTRUCTIONS:
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM:
Continuing on what we developed in assignment 1, this lab will
examine a different way to save students and their course’s information
using C.
The system that you will developed, holds the personal information for
a number of students and the information of the course each student is
registered in.
The assumption is that each student is registered in a single course
only. But the system will have a number of students saved.
REQUIREMENTS:
In this lab, you will introduce a simple student records system, which
will save the student information as well as a single course that the
student is registered in.
Firstly, the system should ask the user to enter the number of students
they wish to save. Then the system should start asking the user to
enter each student and course information.
Keep in mind that the student information is to be presented in a struct,
called Student, while the course information is presented in another
struct, called Course.
The Student struct will have a pointer reference to the Course struct
variable that has the course information. Yet, the Course struct
doesn’t hold any information about the student at all.
Once the user enters all students and course information, the system
must print out all information entered by the user for verification.
The Following is a complete list of the system requirements:
1. Define a Student struct the holds the following information about
each student:
1. First name
2. Last Name
3. Student ID.
4. A pointer to the course student registered in.
2. Define a course struct that holds the following information about
each course:
1. Course code, which is a 7 alphanumeric string.
2. Course name
3. Course struct must be a type defined unnamed struct.
4. The system should ask the user for the number of students they
wish to save.
5. For each student, the system should promote the user to enter
their information.
6. For the student’s course, the system should prompt the user to
enter the course information.
7. Once all students and their courses are entered, the system must
print all their information for the user verification.
The following is a ample output of the system.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
• No late submissions are accepted.
• You can work in a group of maximum 2 students to complete this
lab. Individual work is also accepted.
• If working in a group, add a Readme.txt file that contain each
student name and student number.
• You are required to show your work during the lab time to the
instructor.
• You must submit the source code for the program and the makefile.
Add all your files under a folder call “lastName-firstName-Lab4”, then
Zip the file and submit the zip file only. Make sure to submit all files
required to compile and run the program on the instructor machine
with any errors.
• DON’T submit any extra file please. For example, the binary file (AKA
object or output) files like .exe or .o.
• Brightspace is configured to keep the last submission only. Please
complete all steps required to finish the lab before your first
submission.
• All submission must be done on the main Brightspace shell,
19F_CST8234_010_ALL or 19F_CST8234_020_ALL, not the lab
section one.