CS$201$ Spring $2023-2024$

Homework $5$

$$ Book Management System $$

Due May $31$

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Introduction

In this homework, you will explore object$-$oriented programming by implementing a C$++$

program designed to manage a collection of books. This task involves creating and manipulating

objects, handling user input, and displaying information.

Objective

Your task is to develop a C$++$ program that allows users to add new books, display all books, and

search for books by title stored in a designated vector. You will use your knowledge of classes,

vectors, and function implementation to achieve accurate results.

Inputs, Flow of the Program, and Outputs

Inputs:

$1.$ Book Information: The user will input the title, author, year of publication, and the

number of pages for each book.

$2.$ User Commands: After adding books, the user can input commands to display all books

or search for a book by title.

Flow of the Program:

$1.$ Program Initialization: Display a greeting and a menu of possible actions.

$2.$ User Interaction:

$$ Prompt the user to choose an action $($e$.$g$.,$ add a new book, display all books,

search for a book by title, exit the program$).$

$$ Perform the requested action and display the result.

$$ Allow the user to exit the program by choosing the corresponding menu option.

$3.$ Closure: Terminate the program when the user decides to exit.

Outputs:

$$ Book Information: Displayed in a user$-$friendly format.

$$ Search Results: Display the information of the book if found, otherwise display a

message.

$$ Confirmation Messages: Upon successful book addition.

Provided Files

$$ book.h: Contains the definition of the Book class.

Required Files to Submit

$1.$ main.cpp: Contains the main program logic. Implements the main logic to interact with

the user, add books, display books, and search for books by title. The vector of books

should be sorted by author names before displaying. You will need to sort and search

the vectors of Book$$s $($HINT: add a function void sortBooks$($vector & a$,$

int size$)$ to sort the vector of books by author. For the sorting function, you can

modify the function on slide $27$ of vectors$3.$pptx under week $12$ in the SUCourse.$)$

$2.$ book.cpp: Contains the implementation of the Book class member functions.

a$.$ Member functions to implement:

$$ Constructor: Initialize the book object with provided title, author, year,

and pages.

$$ Getter Member Functions: Return the respective attributes of the book.

$$ printInfo$()$: Display the book's information.

Notes:

$1.$ You need to write your book.cpp implementation file based on the book.h file provided.

Ensure that the function names and signatures match those in book.h$.$ You need to

submit book.cpp but do not submit book.h as it is already provided. The file name

should be $$book$.$cpp$.$

$2.$ You can use cin.ignore$()$; after getting input in both main and the addBook

function to ignore the newline character left in the buffer.

IMPORTANT!

If your code does not compile, then you will get zero. Please be careful

about this and double check your code before submission.

Note: Please avoid using cin.get$()$ in your code for your assignment.

We are using CodeRunner, and these functions may cause unexpected

behaviour.

VERY IMPORTANT!

Your programs will be compiled, executed and evaluated automatically; therefore you

should definitely follow the rules for prompts, inputs and outputs. You can check the

example test case outputs from SUCourse to get more information about the expected

output.

Order of inputs and outputs must be in the mentioned format.

Following these rules is crucial for grading, otherwise, our software will not be able to

process your outputs and you will lose some points in the best scenario.

Sample Runs

Below, we provide only one sample run of the program that you will develop, for more sample

runs please check the SUCourse example test cases.

The italic, bold and yellow highlighted phrases are inputs taken from the user.

NOTE THAT these inputs and the newlines after the inputs are missing at SUCourse in the

outputs expected from you, so please ignore this as you copy$/$paste your C$++$ code from

VS$/$XCode to SUCourse, the same will happen to your code too. You can see samples of

SuCourse output in your assignment on SuCourse.

Visual Studio$/$XCode Outputs

Sample Run $1$

Menu:

$1.$ Add a new book

$2.$ Display all books

$3.$ Search for a book by title

$4.$ Exit

Enter your choice: $1$

Enter title: To Kill a Mockingbird

Enter author: Harper Lee

Enter year: $1960$

Enter pages: $281$

Menu:

$1.$ Add a new book

$2.$ Display all books

$3.$ Search for a book by title

$4.$ Exit

Enter your choice: $4$

Exiting...

Sample Run $2$

Menu:

$1.$ Add a new book

$2.$ Display all books

$3.$ Search for a book by title

$4.$ Exit

Enter your choice: $1$

Enter title: $1984$

Enter author: George Orwell

Enter year: $1949$

Enter pages: $328$

Menu:

$1.$ Add a new book

$2.$ Display all books

$3.$ Search for a book by title

$4.$ Exit

Enter your