Version: 1.0
Author: Ahmed Madkour, Keith Miller & Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: November 22th, 2006
Programming Languages: ISO Standard C++
Tools: Borland C++, Visual Studio, Xcode, CppUnit, wxWidgets, Doxygen
Platforms: Linux, Windows, Mac
Downloads: See the downloads page.
Home Page: available upon request.
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Licence: Apache Licence 2.0
The video library Video Fun lends videos and DVDs. They have contracted you to develop a system to automate their business. The system will record details about the customers who use the library, the materials that are available to be lent, and record which customer currently has what materials on loan.
The details that are stored for a customer are their first and last name, their address, their phone number and their membership number. The details that are stored for a video and a DVD are their title and serial number. Videos can be rented for a period of one week and the rental charge is two Euros. If a video is returned late an additional late fee is payable of one Euro per day late. DVDs can be rented for a period of two days and the rental charge is three Euros. If a DVD is returned late an additional late fee is payable of two Euros per day late.
The program needs to provide the functionality to allow new customers to be added to the system. To allow new videos or DVDs to be added to the system. To allow a video or DVD to be recorded as rented to a customer (the user would enter the customer’s membership number, the item’s serial number and the date of rental). When an item is rented a receipt should be output to the screen that states the name of the item, the length of rental time and the cost of rental. To record the return of a video or DVD the user would enter the serial number for the item and the date of return. If a returned item is late an invoice should be output to the screen that states the name and address of the customer, the name of the item and the late fee.
For simplicity the program does not have to cater for deleting or editing customer details or video or DVD details. Also for simplicity the program does not have to store or load the customer or video or DVD data from files. (Bonus marks will be allocated to students who do implement the functionality of being able to load and save the program data to and from a file. To implement this functionality it is easiest if there is a separate file for each type of data: customer, video and DVD.) For testing purposes an initial set of customers and videos and DVDs can be hard coded into the system. New customers, videos and DVDs should be able to be added to the system as it is running.