1. Learner Objectives:

At the conclusion of this programming assignment, participants should be able to:

• ? Design, implement and test classes in C++
• ? Declare and define ? constructors
• ? Declare and define ? destructors
• ? Compare and contrast ? public? and ? private? access specifiers in C++
• ? Describe what is an ? attribute? or data member of a class
• ? Describe what is a ? method? of a class
• ? Apply and implement ? overloaded? functions
• ? Distinguish between pass-by-? value? and pass-by-? reference
• ? Discuss ? classes? versus ? objects

II. Prerequisites:

Before starting this programming assignment, participants should be able to:

• ? Analyze a basic set of requirements for a problem
• ? Compose basic C++ language programs
• ? Create basic test cases for a program
• ? Apply arrays, strings, and pointers

III. Overview & Requirements:

Note: This project is similar to the Account Class problem provided in your Deitel and Deitel C How To Program? book. You are to write a basic bank application, in C++, that allows the user of the application to manually create, modify, and delete bank accounts. Before you write the application you will need to create a class called ? Account? . The class ? Account? is used to represent customers' bank accounts. Your class should include four data members to represent the account balance (a double), account number (an integer), customer name (a string), and date the account was opened (a string).

Your class should provide two constructors: one default constructor with no parameters and one constructor with the initial balance, account number, customer name, and date created as parameters. The second constructor should check the initial balance. If the balance is not >= 0, the balance should be set to 0 and an error message should be displayed.

The class should provide several member functions. Some of which are described below. Remember that you will have to think about other appropriate member functions (think about? set? ter and ? get? ter functions!). Member function credit? should add an amount to the current balance and store it back into the balance. Member function debit? should withdraw money from the ? Account? , modify the balance, and ensure the debit amount does not exceed the ? Account's? balance.

If it does, the balance should be left unmodified and the function should print an appropriate message. Member function ? printAccountInfo ? should print the current balance, account number, customer name, and date of the account.

Once you have designed your ? Account? class. You will need to create the ? main? bank program. Note that you can create the main bank program in the main function or you can try to create another class for the main bank program. The main program needs to display a menu for adding, deleting, modifying, and displaying accounts.

You decide appropriate menu features! Have fun with this assignment!