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Programming. The purpose of the third program is to continue refining our use
of functions and arguments in C++ and practice using arrays of characters,
structures, and external data files. This is directly related to what was learned
with Lab #5. Again, our goal is to create programs with a small functions where
main delegates to a series of functions where the real work takes place. In this
programming assignment, you are not allowed to use global variables. Limit
your functions to no more than 30 statements of code (for executable
statements… not counting variable definitions, blank lines, lines with just curly
brackets, or comments).
Program Assignment:
Have you put a resume together yet? I know my daughter created her resume in
high school. But, as you get experience, degrees, and employment your resume
will be updated. What happens if you need to go back and use a previous
version of your resume? Did you write over it when you made changes? Or, did
you save it under a different file name that now has gotten lost? I’ve done both in
my career.
Your job for program #3 is build a program to help assist you in keeping track of
the vital information that is part of your resume and instead of rewriting it when
there are changes, your program will track changes. You should keep track of at
least the following information for each update of your resume using two
different structs:
1. Your name
2. Degree and College/University
3. GPA
4. Current Employment (this should be a separate struct)
a. Start date
b. End date or “Current”
c. Company
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CS162 Winter 2015 Program #3
A large piece of this assignment is to use external data files, so that all new
information to be added to your resume won’t be lost. For us, have your program
create a file called “resume.txt”.
Remember with external data files, the information that you store in the files
must be written in such a way that it is easy to read it back in. Also, make sure to
keep all files in your “current working directory” on linux as the grader will not
be able to replicate your directory structure.
IMPORTANT: Your program should allow information being tracked to be
appended to the end of the existing file (or to create a file if it was empty) and
allow the user to display the information from the file in a meaningful way. Let
the user continue to do this using a loop until they want to quit.
Extra credit: +3 points Allow the user to search for a particular employer in your
job history.
***You are always welcome to do more! Really focus on making general purpose
functions that can be re-used. And, get more practice with arrays of characters!
Things you should know…as part of your program:
1. Make sure to prompt the user for any input requested. Make sure it is
clear from your prompts what the user is expected to do.
2. You may not use any global variables in this program!
3. You may not use the string class – instead use arrays of characters. You
are allowed to use the cstring library.
4. Make sure to use C++’s I/O (iostream library) for your input and output.
5. After each input operation, make sure to use cin.ignore to remove the
delimiters!
6. With external data files, first read before checking for end of file:
i. Read the first item
ii. While (!infile.eof())
1. Process what was read
2. Read again (prime the pump!)
To get full credit for the programming portion, you will need to:
1. Turn in an algorithm written using full English sentences (it may be
provided in outline form, paragraph form, or graphical (such as a data
flow diagram)). It can be supplied as part of your header comments or as a
separate file.
CS162 Winter 2015 Program #3
2. Program using a consistent style of indentation, header comments for each
function, inline comments for each major block of code
3. Make sure to put your name in your program
4. Submit an electronic copy of your .cpp file as an attached file to the
dropbox on D2L (go to: http://d2l.pdx.edu/ to login). Make sure to hit
the submit button after uploading your files (otherwise they will be lost)
