CIS $1111$ Final Project $-$ Assignment Instructions

As part of your final assessment in this course, you are to design and develop a program of your own design and

choosing. There is a list of ideas below, but you can come up with your own idea. Read all the instructions very carefully

and review the grading rubric for this assignment. The grading rubric will be used to grade your final project.

Your final program must be original and not based on any assignments in this or any other course or programs found

on the internet. This project is also assessing your ability to problem solve.

Suggested Topics:

$$ Statistics $($sports$,$ video

games, etc...$)$

$$ Business $($accounting$,$

warehousing, retail,

etc...$)$

$$ Home inventory system

$($inventory your

belongings, your film

collection, your music

collection, your

antiques collection,

etc...$)$

$$ Dictionary $($SpanishEnglish$,$ Thesaurus,

Quotes, rhymes,

Scrabble, etc...$)$

$$ Personal finance

$($Expense tracker, check

book, Monthly budget$)$

$$ Personal development

$($calorie tracker,

exercise log$,$ to do list$)$

Grading Rubric for This Assignment:

Criteria

Range $$ Low End $($Did not

do or did very little

effort$)$

Range $$ High End $($Used

correctly and spent

time$/$effort on programming$)$

Program documentation page Includes:

Name and description of the project

List of inputs$/$outputs

Flowchart

Instructions on how to use the program

Submit the documentation as a Word file or a PDF

Flowchart

$05$

Names of variables are meaningful and the program

comments self$-$document the program. $05$

Math operations $($for max points use built$-$in math

functions$)$ NOTE: Increment does not count as a math

operation.

$05$

Provide screen shots of the program executed with $3$ sets

of test data. $05$

If $/$ else or a switch statement $($to get max points use

nested if $/$elses$)05$

Loops $2$ types $($for max points use nested loops$)05$

Validated user input $05$

Save the data to a sequential data file and read from it $010$

$2$

At least $3$ functions appropriately passing parameters and

returning values as needed $($to get max points, overloaded

function$)$

$015$

Two dimensional arrays or vectors $010$

Formatted the output so it is easy to read and aligned $05$

The program executes without error and the output is

correct

$010$

Overall effort and complexity $010$

The zipped program folder and screens shots of the code

and console are uploaded to dropbox. $05$

Total Points Possible $0100$