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The document outlines Assignment 3 for COMPSCI 1XC3, due on March 24th, 2025, which involves reading course and student data from a text file and writing formatted student information to an output file. It specifies the structure of the input and output files, the required functions for reading and writing data, and emphasizes memory management and coding style. Students must ensure correct order in the output and submit their main.c file for grading.

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The document outlines Assignment 3 for COMPSCI 1XC3, due on March 24th, 2025, which involves reading course and student data from a text file and writing formatted student information to an output file. It specifies the structure of the input and output files, the required functions for reading and writing data, and emphasizes memory management and coding style. Students must ensure correct order in the output and submit their main.c file for grading.

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COMPSCI 1XC3 C01,C03

Assignment 3
(100 points)
Due date: March 24th, 2025

In assignment 3, you are provided with main.c, course.h, student.h, and an example text file
courseInfo.txt.

Format of Input Text File


The example of the input file is provided in courseInfo.txt. The format is as follows:

Functionality of main.c
In main.c, it contains the general functionality of the assignment. You will read in the formatted
text file, store the information in data structures defined in course.h and student.h, and write out
student information to a formatted output file “studentInfo.txt”.
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
readCourseInfoFrom("courseInfo.txt");
writeStudentInfoTo("studentInfo.txt");
cleanup();
return 0;
}

Course data in course.h


In course.h, four parallel arrays are defined:
char* courseIDs [MAX_COURSE_NUM];
char* courseNames [MAX_COURSE_NUM];
int courseCapacities [MAX_COURSE_NUM];
int* courseTakenByStudents [MAX_COURSE_NUM];
courseIDs[i], courseName[i], courseCapacities[i] and courseTakenByStudents[i] describe the id,
name, capacity and ids of students for course i.

Student data in student.h


In student.h, three parallel arrays are defined:
int studentIDs [MAX_STUDENT_NUM];
char* studentNames [MAX_STUDENT_NUM];
char** studentTakesCourses [MAX_STUDENT_NUM];
studentIDs[i], studentNames[i], and studentTakesCoruses[i] describe student i’s id, name, and
courses ids taken by student i.

Format of Output Text File


Once the information is read, main.c will write out the student information to studentInfo.txt,
examples provided. The format of the output file is as below. In the output file, the order of
students and the order of courses follow the appearance orders of students and courses in the
input file. From the courseInfo.txt example, student order in the output studentInfo.txt should be:
Jenny, Paul, Billy, Billie and Harry; for each student the course order is 1XC3 then 3GC3 if they
take multiple courses.
Note:
●​ Put your implementation of file reading in function void
readCourseInfoFrom(char* fileName) 20’ and your file writing in function
void writeStudentInfoTo(char* fileName) 20’.
●​ Please make sure that malloced space is properly released using free without
memory leak in void cleanup()20’.
●​ Note that coding style e.g. tidiness and readability may take up minor points, up to 5’
among the above 60’.
●​ You can assume the input file format is correct, and each student maximally takes 5
courses. Students may have the same name, but their student ids are unique. Course ids
are also unique.
●​ Please do not change any of the header files, and make sure your main.c compiles
correctly with course.h and student.h using gcc main.c .
●​ Please submit your main.c file and TA will recompile your submitted code and test run
during grading 40’. Pay attention to the order of students and courses in the output file, as
wrong orders could fail the test cases and lead to points lost. Please verify with the
example studentInfo.txt

You may feel the trouble managing the parallel arrays. We will update to using structure in our
next assignment.

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