Programming Principles Assignment

INTRODUCTION

This assignment aims to give you a real problem-solving experience, similar to what you might encounter in the workplace. You have been hired to complete a prototype for a project that has not been fully specified at this stage. There is some supporting documentation to the project in addition to this document. You are required to deliver a working prototype by the required date.

THE TASK

For this assignment your task is to develop a program for a car rental company called Mates Rates Rent a Car (MRRC) to help the operators of the company more efficiently manage their fleet of cars and their customers.

The operators of MRRC require the following functionality:

1. Enter/modify/delete customers
2. Enter/modify/delete cars
3. Search for suitable vehicles based on customers' requests
4. Rent out cars to customers
5. Return cars from customers
6. Display a rented cars report It offers vehicles in 4 classes -

• Economy
• Family
• Luxury
• Commercial

Vehicles have various traits. A Vehicle class defines the shared properties and methods of all cars and support specialised properties and methods. For instance, luxury cars have GPS and opening roof, and commercial vehicles may have a diesel engine. Number of seats in cars may vary from 2 to 10 (fixed per car though.) Each car has a (possibly) unique rental cost per day.

Customers have various traits. A Customer class defines the shared properties and methods of all customers. Attributes required are Name (with suitably defined sub-fields), and Date of birth (with suitably defined sub-fields).

These classes are used by:

A Fleet class manages the rental of vehicles. The fleet class should load the vehicle fleet from file on start-up. This class should be based on an array of Vehicle objects. It should support operations on the fleet (e.g. add/modify/delete)

A CRM class manages the collection of customers. The CRM class should load the customers from file on start-up. This class should be based on an array of Customer objects. It should support operations on the Customer (e.g. add/modify/delete)

Both the Fleet and CRM classes should save their data to disk when the program is closed by the operator.

Upon start-up, the program has to load the Fleet (vehicles) and CRM (customers) from permanent storage on disk files. During operation the in-memory system is used to manage all operations. When the program is finished it must save the Fleet and CRM data to disk.

NOTE: There is no requirement to back up the data to disk in case the program is not terminated correctly. However, the program should work correctly if started and stopped any number of times, and preserve the state of the CRM and Fleet.

Graphical User Interface:

You are required to create a graphical user interface for this program using Windows Forms. The design of this GUI is largely up to you, however it should be functional and relatively simple, and should allow operators to complete all required functions.

The program should allow the operator to

1. Enter a new customer
2. Modify an existing customer
3. Delete a customer - but not if having a car rented at present
4. Enter a new vehicle
5. Modify an existing vehicle
6. Delete a vehicle - but not if the vehicle is rented at present
7. Search for a suitable car based on a customer's request (see the search capabilities section)
8. Rent a car to a customer
9. Return a car from a customer
10. Produce a report (to the screen) of all rented vehicles with option to:

a. order by customer name
b. order by vehicle registration.

Attachment:- Cab-Assignment.rar