Project 3, CISC181h, Fall 2005

You have three choices:

• Choice #1.

  Do the regular section project 3 (note that this means you kind of have to sort of do the regular section project 2 as well, since project 3 builds on their project 2).

  For this project you "choose a theme" and then write a program that manipulates a linked list of objects according to that theme.

  For example, if your theme is "ski resorts", you are writing a menu-driven program to manipulate a linked list of "ski resorts", and your data members are things like "name of resort", "location", "number of trails", "distance from Newark".

  If your theme is "moves starring Tom Hanks", the attributes are "title", "rating", "year released", "box office gross", etc.

  You need at least two character attributes and two numeric attributes.

  You also have to write a separate main program that shows that the following member functions work correctly:

         (1) copy constructor
         (2) overloaded = sign
         (3) destructor
         (4) overloaded <<
         (5) overloaded +  (for adding objects to the list).
      

• Choice #2: Propose your own self-designed project based on an "object-oriented version" of either proj1 (the graphics project using gnuplot), or proj1b from the regular section (which involved creating WAV files, e.g. files containing morse code, touch tones, or very simple melodies (the type you might hear on a really old cell phone).)
  
  For this one, you need to propose something to me in an email (cc Kevin) and we need to negotiate what the project will involve. We'll do some back and forth; we have to make sure that "linked lists" get in there somewhere.
  
• Choice #3: A truly self-designed project... if you've had an idea for a program you've always wanted to try to write, but never got around to it, now is your chance. Propose something... as long as it can involve some reasonably use of classes, and linked lists, I'll probably say yes.

For choice #2 and #3, the deadline for your "proposal" is the end of lab on 11/15/05). Kevin is available to help you brainstorm if you have an idea and you aren't sure how to work in "linked lists". Your proposal doesn't have to be 100% completely thought out, but you have to have at least an initial idea and it should be, let's say, 60% thought out (whatever that means).

Just realize that we need to put a stake in the ground soon if you want to do something _other than_ Choice #1.

Any questions, feel free to email me (please CC Kevin).