School of Computing Information Technology
CSCI251 Advanced Programming
Assignment 1 Autumn 2022
Overview
This assignment is to be implemented using procedural programming. These are some general rules about
what you should and shouldn’t do.
1. Your assignment should be organised into ONLY three source-code files:
(a) A driver file containing your main() function. Meanwhile, the main() function should make it
clear what is going on, and shouldn’t be too large.
(b) A header file containing the prototypes for the functions you write.
(c) An implementation file containing the implementations of your functions.
2. Provide a text file Readme.txt with instructions for compiling details, such as codeblocks or Capa.
3. Within your code, be consistent in your tabbing style. We want readable code.
4. Include sensible volumes of commenting.
5. Use appropriate variable names.
6. Don’t leak memory.
7. Our marking system will run on Capa and Codeblocks. Make sure that your code can run on either
system.
Description
This program is used to simulate the process of the mechanical repairs, and we simplify some steps here.
The “claims.txt” and “mechanics.txt” file saves the information from individual claim and mechanic,
respectively.
Each claim (one line record from the “claims.txt”) represents a (car) repairing requirement, while it
attempts to go through mechanics ONLY in its own list. They will try from the first to the last one (one
mechanic for one time) to see if this mechanic could fix the problem (as the trial process). The process
stops if one trial gets successful, otherwise it will go to the next mechanic (for another trial). This claim
fails if no trials (mechanics) are successful in the list, and it will consider as the (car) scrap.
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