A little help for a beginner.

I am a freshman in programming so basically, I am a beginner to all these C language stuffs. Our professor gave us a project and I am really lost. Here:

"Generate a Student Directory with the fields listed below:
1. Last name
2. First name
3. Middle name
4. Student number
5. Course
6. Contact no.
7. Email

Create a program with the ff. functions:
[1] Add New Record
[2] Delete a Record
[3] Search for a Record
[4] Display All (last names arranged in alphabetical order)
[5] Save to a File (Directory.txt)
[6] Exit

At the start, the program will read from a file named Directory.txt (if it exists), and will load the contents of the file in a linked list which will be used by the program."


Thank you

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> At the start, the program will read from a file named Directory.txt (if it exists), and will load the contents of the file in a linked list which will be used by the program."
Start simple.

Like for example, a fixed number of students (say 3), stored in an array (not a linked list), without the load/save functionality.

First things first. Look at this link to see the views on people doing homework.

Now, two small questions that might help get you started.

What do you think a single record in the student directory might contain?

What do you understand a linked list is? What do you think a linked list of records might do?

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Originally Posted by ixapie

I am a freshman in programming so basically, I am a beginner to all these C language stuffs. Our professor gave us a project and I am really lost. Here:

"Generate a Student Directory with the fields listed below:
1. Last name
2. First name
3. Middle name
4. Student number
5. Course
6. Contact no.
7. Email

Create a program with the ff. functions:
[1] Add New Record
[2] Delete a Record
[3] Search for a Record
[4] Display All (last names arranged in alphabetical order)
[5] Save to a File (Directory.txt)
[6] Exit

At the start, the program will read from a file named Directory.txt (if it exists), and will load the contents of the file in a linked list which will be used by the program."


Thank you

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You are not lost, you are just lazy. There is a major difference between the two.