Boat Trip Assignment

Background

SCUBA diving on the Great Barrier Reef is a popular recreation for many Queenslanders and tourists. Commonly a dive boat will go out to the reef for several days at a time, allowing divers several dives per day, without having to return to land. Such live-aboard boats visit several dive sites while out on the reef. Multiple days of multiple diving requires keeping a record of the dives done, to ensure divers to not expose themselves to decompression sickness. In addition, when the boat is to be moved from one site to another, it is important to be sure that everyone is on-board, for otherwise divers left in the water have to swim back. Most really good dive operators are extremely careful, and have never left anyone behind. Unfortunately their are occasional slip-ups.

The Task

Complete a simple dive logging system, for use on SCUBA boats. The system records the names of passengers, their status (on board or in the water), and information about each dive they do (bottom time and maximum depth). Allow for up to 20 divers on a boat, and each diver doing up to 20 dives.

The program must accept the boat name as a command line option, and then repeatedly present the user with options to:

A sample run looks like this. You can run the program ~cpgcs/CP1300/BoatTripAssignment/BoatTrip on barra, to test any details that are not shown in the sample run.

To get you started, here's BoatTrip.cpp that contains the main function, and the included file cstring.h. You must design and implement the Boat, Passenger, and Dive classes, and create a Makefile to generate the executable.

Rules and Hints

Submission

The assignment is due in your tutorial of week 12 (the week starting 23/10/99). Your program will be tested in the tutorial using the sequence of commands given in the sample run above, and some other sequences. You must also submit a printout of your source code files and Makefile.

The assignment will be marked out of 15, according to the following distribution:

Solution