Thread: Bank Account Problem

Problem Overview

The First National Bank of Parkland has asked you to design and develop an account transaction database system. The system allows bank employees to:

1) Setup an account for a new customer (make sure your system can hold at least 20 total customers). Every customer account should contain the customer first and last name, address, social security number (SS#), interest rate, and a field for the total balance in the account.

2) Print account information for a single customer or the entire list of customer accounts. Include in the output all information for each account (name, address, SS#, interest rate, type of account, balance) in a readable and well organized output format.


Develop a menu-driven interactive system that provides bank employees with a menu listing the various commands available and continue until the user terminates the program. An example of a typical session might look like:

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Welcome to the First National Bank
of Parkland - Account transaction system
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Enter any of the following commands:
1) Create account
2) Print accounts
3) Select account
4) Deposit
5) Withdrawal
6) Quit

We're supposed to use object oriented classes so I created an Account class for the customer information:

customer.h

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

class account
{
   private:
      string first;
      string last;
      string address;
      string SS;

   public:
      void init();
      void print();
};

customer.cpp

Code:

#include "customer.h"

void customer::init()
{
   cout << "\nNew Account" << endl;
   cout << "Enter the first name of the depositor: ";
   getline(cin, first, '\n');
   cout << "Enter the last name of the depositor: ";
   getline(cin, last, '\n');
   cout << "Enter the address: ";
   getline(cin, address, '\n');
   cout << "Enter social security #: ";
   getline(cin, SS, '\n');
}

void customer::print()
{
   cout << "Name of depositor: " << first << " " << last << endl;
   cout << "Address: " << address << endl;
   cout << "Social Security #: " << SS << endl;
}

But then I got to thinking about how I was going to implement the interactive menu. I can't figure out how it's going to keep track of and display new and existing customers so that the user can pick a customer from the menu and edit it or print it etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.