CSE 231 Fall 2017 Programming Project #5 Edit: 10/10/2017 removed prohibition on lists-you can use them. Added requirement #5 that your program must be general. This assignment is worth 45 points (4.5% of the course grade) and must be completed and turned in before 11:59 PM on Monday, October 16, 2017 Assignment Overview This assignment involves coding and testing of a program that reads input files, and uses functions to calculate statistical information about the input data Assignment Background Unable to find a tenure-track job in Academia, and unwilling to make slave-wages as an adjunct, you turn to jobs in industry. You find yourself employed at RobCo, a multinational corporation producing dozens of different products for different markets all over the United States. The suits in marketing have assigned you your first big project, identifying trends in product sales, and the effectiveness of advertising. You must identify which ads for what products are performing best, and identify, for each product, the ad that gives the best ROl, or Return OnInvestment. When your boss's boss is finally done flapping his mouth and leaves your cubicle, you sit dumbfounded for a moment. You can't believe it. That's it? This is the big project? Obviously, this joker can't operate a calculator, so he hired you to do it. You can't believe he makes ten times your salary. You have a degree in Computer Science, for Pete's sake! Well, the cat won't CSE 231 Fall 2017 Programming Project #5 Edit: 10/10/2017 removed prohibition on lists-you can use them. Added requirement #5 that your program must be general. This assignment is worth 45 points (4.5% of the course grade) and must be completed and turned in before 11:59 PM on Monday, October 16, 2017 Assignment Overview This assignment involves coding and testing of a program that reads input files, and uses functions to calculate statistical information about the input data Assignment Background Unable to find a tenure-track job in Academia, and unwilling to make slave-wages as an adjunct, you turn to jobs in industry. You find yourself employed at RobCo, a multinational corporation producing dozens of different products for different markets all over the United States. The suits in marketing have assigned you your first big project, identifying trends in product sales, and the effectiveness of advertising. You must identify which ads for what products are performing best, and identify, for each product, the ad that gives the best ROl, or Return OnInvestment. When your boss's boss is finally done flapping his mouth and leaves your cubicle, you sit dumbfounded for a moment. You can't believe it. That's it? This is the big project? Obviously, this joker can't operate a calculator, so he hired you to do it. You can't believe he makes ten times your salary. You have a degree in Computer Science, for Pete's sake! Well, the cat won't