Ordering System in C with CRUD Feature

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Originally Posted by encepalopatyh

Hi, I am a computer science student who just started programming 2 weeks ago. We are given a task to create a simple CRUD program. Our professior wants us to create a program that shows a menu and asks the user to choose to either create, read, update and delete.

My plan is to create an item ordering system wherein there's a static list of items a user can choose from. They could create orders, read all the existing orders created, update those orders (change the items, no. of items, etc.) and delete then as well. I'm thinking of having atleast 4 tables for products, customers, orders, and order items. Is it possible? I can't find a way to start with it. I really need some help how to do it. I appreciate if someone helps me and suggestions are a lot appreciated. Thank you.

Since you've only been programming for two weeks, I'd suggest something simple.
Just declare a struct with no variable-length fields for your "record" type. Store the structs as a flat array in memory.
Start by writing code to print out the entire table. Then write code to load and save it from disk.
THen you need to handle create, read, update, delete. You may have been told what interface to use for these. It's clumsy with a command-line interface. With real program you would display a GUI with the fields and a search box, but that's too much for a first exercise.