Help needed simple program!!

can anyone help me to do this program??my little brother need my help but im not that good a c++ heres the problem

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Define a class called Animal with the following data attributes
Desc : array of 20 character
Height : float
Weight : float
Define a class Bird that inherits from Animal class above wit hthe following attributes:
Wingspan : float
Your program should be able to store up to 10 BridRec records in an array called BirdsArray.

Your program should at least perform the below operations

- Add new birds records into BirdsArray
- Display all birds record
- Display the bird details with largeST winspan
- Display the bird details with lowest winspan

thats what it says to his take home problem thx

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once you have done so, look over the following code. if you're good at recognizing patterns, you'll be able to figure it out (it's working code, and is an example of the base class you'd need):

Code:

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#ifndef __ANIMAL_H_
#define __ANIMAL_H_

#include<cstring>
#include"Untitled1.h"

cs cn
{
    pbc:
        cn(noch dtc*in="",noch dtf h=0.0f,noch dtf w=0.0f);
        vd printstats();
    ptd:
        dtc desc[sz];
        dtf ht;
        dtf wt;
};

cn::cn(noch dtc*in,noch dtf h,noch dtf w)
{
    strcpy(desc,in);
    ht=h;
    wt=w;
}

#endif

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edit: it works as long as you have the necessary (proprietary) file, or you fix the names. just FYI: I'll put as much effort into helping you as you put into it yourself.

Thats great, i needed a homework type question like that to help me learn C#! That'll be ideal, thanks :)

wow ok thx i need to understand it 1st

hmmm is that a c++ code or a c# code???i only understand a little whats cs do???

\\can i code it like this im not too advance in c++ programming

Code:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<iomanip.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

class animal{
        char *Desc;
        float Height;
        float Weight;
        public:
        void setanimal (char *desc, float height, float weight){
        Desc = new char[strlen(desc)+1];
        strcpy(Desc, desc);}
        };

class bird: public animal{
        float Wingspan;
        public:
        void setbird (float wingspan){Wingspan = wingspan;}
        };

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\\but i dont know how to add an array of object to it lol so that i can add 20 information and how to gety the highets and lowest wingspan

ok i got everything to add a record and display what have i added now the real problem is how do i get them to show the largest and smallest wingspan??heres my code:

Code:

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#include <iostream.h>
#include<string.h>
#include<iomanip.h>
#include<stdio.h>
#include <conio.h>

class animal{
        public:
        char *Desc;
        float Height;
        float Weight;
        char *getDesc(void){return Desc;}
        float getHeight(void){return Height;}
        float getWeight(void){return Weight;}

        void setanimal (char *desc, float height, float weight){
        Desc = new char[strlen(desc)+1];
        strcpy(Desc, desc);
        Height = height;
        Weight = weight;}

        void PrintAllInfo(){
                cout<<"Desc: "<<getDesc()<<endl;
                cout<<"Height : "<<getHeight()<<endl;
                cout<<"Weight : "<<getWeight()<<endl;
                }
        };

class bird: public animal{
        public:
        float Wingspan;
        float getWingspan(void){return Wingspan;}
        void setbird (float wingspan){Wingspan = wingspan;}
        void PrintInfo(){
                cout<<"Wingspan: "<<getWingspan()<<endl;}
        };




void main(void) {
int choice;
bird BirdRec[9];
int x = 0,countera = 0;
char *Desc;Desc = new char[20];
float height,weight,wingspan;
do {
clrscr();
cout<<"[1]Add new Bird Rec"<<endl;
cout<<""<<endl;
cout<<"[2]Display all Bird's Record"<<endl;
cout<<""<<endl;
cout<<"[3]Display the bird with the largest winspan"<<endl;
cout<<""<<endl;
cout<<"[4]Display the bird with the smallest winspan"<<endl;
cout<<""<<endl;
cout<<"[5]Exit"<<endl;
cout<<""<<endl;
cout<<"Please Enter a number: ";
cin>>choice;


switch(choice){
case 1:
        int choose;
                do{
                cout<<"Enter Birds Name: ";
                gets(Desc);
                cout<<"Enter height: ";
                cin>>height;
                cout<<"Enter weight: ";
                cin>>weight;
                cout<<"Enter wingspan: ";
                cin>>wingspan;
                BirdRec[x].setbird(wingspan);
                BirdRec[x].setanimal(Desc,height,weight);
                cout<<"Enter another Record?[1]Yes / [2]No";
                cin>>choose;
                x = x + 1;
                }while(choose != 2);
break;
case 2:
                int counter, y;
                y = x - 1;
                clrscr();
                if (y < 0) {
                cout<<"There is still no data of any Bird Recorded"<<endl;}
                else {
                for (counter = 0;counter <= y;counter=counter+1){
                BirdRec[counter].PrintAllInfo();
                BirdRec[counter].PrintInfo();
                cout<<""<<endl;
                }}
                ;
                getch();


break;

case 5:
        countera = 2;

}

}while(countera != 2);

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i use switch to do the menu thing and i hope to do the case 3 and 4 for the largest and smallest wingspan thx

jigen, I notice you have 3 posts in the space of 17 minutes, not to mention a total of 4 consecutive posts. Please learn to use the board's edit feature if you need to change part of a post. What you are doing may be considered 'bumping', and is against forum rules. This forum also carries a very negative attitude towards homework questions. You can feel free to ask for help with an assignment, but you need to give everything your best try before coming to us. You can't expect someone to dohalf your assignment for you.

I suggest you use the search feature major_small recommended for you. There have been many threads where people need to find the minimum and maximum value out of a series of numbers.

oh ok thx for reminding me