Example - Book Inventory Records

Specification:

You work in the MIS Department of Barnes and Nelson Book Stores. You have been asked to write a book inventory program. The book information to be stored includes: book name, ISBN, year published, number on hand, cost and price. In addition they need to be able to store from one to four authors' names. The program is to have the following features:

• Load the inventory from disk (there are at most 500 books in inventory at a time)

• Enter new books

• Display the book information given the ISBN

• Edit book information one item at a time presented with the current information given the ISBN

• Delete books from the inventory given the current information

• Save the inventory to disk.

Menu output:

Inventory

Modification

1. Enter New

Records

2. Display by

ISBN

3. Edit Records

4. Delete Records

5. Exit

Which?

Sample Data:

Open table as spreadsheet

Book Data	Example 1	Example 2	Example 3	Example 4
Book Name	The First One	The Second One	The Third One	The Fourth One
ISBN	111-11-11111-1	222-22-22222-2	333-33-33333-3	444-44-44444-4
Year Book was Published	1922	1945	1075	2003
Number OnHand	5	125	244	300
Cost per Book	$12.34	$45.78	$76.45	$124.67
Total Cost of Books	$61.70	$5722.50	$18653.80	$37401.00
Price per Book	$22.65	$76.78	$99.56	$198.56
Total Selling Price	$113.25	$9597.50	$24292.64	$59568.00
Authors 1	Some One	Some Else	Another Person	The Real One
Authors 2	none	none	none	none
Authors 3	none	none	none	none
Authors 4	none	none	none	none

Design:

• UML Class design: bookInventory.gif

• Structure chart: sc_doInventory.gif

• Pseudo code: pc_doInventory.txt

Coding:

• class definition header file (notice that the data types of the attributes and methods were changed in this header from the UML diagram to reflect the data types needed by C++): bookInventory.h

• class methods source file: bookInventory.cpp

• modules header file: theFunctions.h

• execution source file: doInventory.cpp