Thread: What do i need ? Help needed

Hi, i recently started studying programming.


So, I've been assigned this new project.

'A program to handle the reservations of an airline's flight.

Considering the planes have the following characteristics:

- Vip area: 5 rows and 4 Columns A,B,C,D
-Smoking area: 10 rows 6 colums A,B,C,D,E,F
-Non-smoking 10 x 6 A,B,C,D,E,F

The program must be able to store the information of each passenger, including name, ID,gender, age. It must also alert you when seats are taken, a complete area is full, or the airplane is full.

It must also have a menu with these options: Reserve a seat, remove a reservation, consulting a reservation, and seats on every area [taken and not taken]

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The problem is.... I have no idea what i need to start!

I don't want you to give me code. Maybe it could help , but only if you need it to explain something to me, cause i want to do this.

I just need you to tell me what do i need to use for every part of the program, i can then google the methods, the functions, whatever, and learn em and apply em.

I suck haha ^^ all of ur ideas are welcome

I have to use structures for the passengers right? But , what do i need to make the seats? and the areas? i have NO idea. How do I make it so that it checks that its taken or not? T_T *desperate*

But , what do i need to make the seats? and the areas?

A class with 2D bool arrays to represent the areas perhaps. I would initialize all elements (seats) of the arrays to 0 and set them to 1 one-by-one as the seats are reserved to indicate they've been taken.

Code:

class Seats
{
    bool vip[5][4];
    bool smoking[10][6];
    bool nsmoking[10][6];
    public:
        //Constructor and other functions
}

Originally Posted by rogster001

How can you have "NO" idea??? what are you doing being given exercises at this level if you cannot begin to imagine the kinds of data structures / types, program flow elements that you will need to use in order to pass the test??

My guiess is that he's not paid attention in class this year!

So... the ideas i have are... [ pardon my newbie explanation ]

Ok so... a switch to make the main menu

"Reserve a seat, remove a reservation, consulting a reservation, and seats on every area [taken and not taken"


qwertyluker game me the idea for the seats, i don't really know how to work with classes, i'll google that out.

A struct for the passengers, containing name, id, age, gender.

But.. how do i link the passengers to the seats? like... If "X seat" is taken make this array "1"

I will have to google some more, cause apparently i have to make a structure for every passenger? sigh.. i suck lol