CSE 102 Programming Assignment 5
Description
For this assignment, you are expected to write an interactive program which, according to the user input, creates dynamic responses and do simple calculations.
A compound object will be defined interactively and you program will keep track of a simple property and return a result based on the composition of the object.
Example:
Suppose that you want to calculate the total cost of a bicycle. In this case your compound object is a bicycle. A bicycle has many parts and some of the parts are also compound objects individually. So, a hierarchical structure can be used in order to model such a compound object. You can visualize it as a tree. Nodes are the parts and the children of a particular node are the parts which make up the part associated with that node.
Price
Bicycle x 1
Wheel x 2
Rim x 1 60.0
Spoke x 28 12.0
Hub x 1
Gear x 6 25.0
Axle x 1
Nut x 7 0.15
Bolt x 5 0.1
Frame x 1
Rearframe x 1 170.0
Frontframe x 1
Fork x 2 21.5
Handle x 1 12.0
Figure 1: Composition of a bicycle
Figure 1 shows parts of a bicycle. A bicycle can be described as an object which consists of 2 wheels and a frame. We can create a more detailed description by including the description of the individual parts, wheel and frame. A description includes number of the parts, part name and, if no further description is needed, prices of the part or parts.
Your program does not know anything about the compound object. Expectation is either there is a compound object which can be specified by its parts or there is a simple object which can be specified by its property For this example, the property is the price of an object. Your program will ask questions to the user and eventually calculate the total price of the bicycle the user described.
Below is a simple dialog which the user describes the object ‘bicycle’ to the program:
> Define the object:
> Bicycle
> What is Bicycle?:
> 2*Wheel+1*Frame > What is Wheel?: > 1*Rim+28*Spoke+1*Hub > What is Rim?:
> 60.0
> What is Spoke?:
> 12.0
> What is Hub?:
> 6*Gear+1*Axle
> What is Gear?: > 25.0
> What is Axle?:
> 7*Nut+5*Bolt
> What is Nut?:
> 0.15
> What is Bolt?:
> 0.1
> What is Frame?: > 1*Rearframe+1*Frontframe > What is Rearframe?:
> 170.0 > What is Frontframe?
> 1*Fork+1*Handle > What is Fork?:
> 21.5 > What is Handle?:
> 12.0
> Total cost of Bicycle is 1320.1
