Lab 3

Logistics

  • Due: Tuesday, May 18th no later than 11:59pm.
  • Submission instructions: push a commit with the tag lab3 to your git repository.
  • Deadline reminder: after the deadline passes, you cannot earn any points for this assignment. If the deadline is approaching, submit what you have in order to earn partial credit.

Learning outcomes

  • Practice using file redirection.
  • Practice using arrays.

Assignment

This problem comes from problem 1, chapter 7 on page 445-446 of the book.

Write a program to grade an n-question multiple-choice exam, where n is between 1 and 10. You receive the information about the exam from standard input (so you should use scanf), but you should read it using file redirection instead of typing the input. The first line contains the number of questions followed by the correct answer for each question. All of the following lines contain a student id number followed by that student’s answers to each question. An example input file can be found in /public/lab3/testdata.txt. It looks like this:

8 ccddabce
100 bcddabca
107 ccddcbab
112 ccddabcc
115 bbccabcd
120 cdcdabde

meaning that there were 8 questions on the exam and five students took it.

Your program should print out a report about the exam that shows the correct answer for each question, the grade for each student (by ID and in the same order that they were passed in), and a count of the number of students who missed each question. For example, your program should output the following given the provided testdata.txt file.

[p19t655@csci112 lab3]$ ./lab3 < testdata.txt 
Question	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
Answer		c c d d a b c e 

ID	Grade(%)
100	75.00
107	62.50
112	87.50
115	37.50
120	62.50

Question	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
Missed By	2 2 2 1 1 0 2 4

Requirements

  • Write your program in a file called lab3.c in your csci112-firstname-lastname/labs/lab3/ directory.
  • Your output formatting must match the example. Use a tool like diffchecker to compare your output with the sample output. You do not need to worry about trailing spaces.

Grading - 100 points

  • 10 points – includes comments to explain what the program does
  • 10 points – code is indented so that it is readable
  • 15 points – compiles successfully with -Wall – no warnings
  • 5 points - Uses \t for spacing in output
  • 20 points – matches the output format exactly
  • 5 points – reads in the input correctly
  • 5 points – computes each student’s grade correctly
  • 10 points – prints the number of students who missed a question correctly
  • 10 points – uses arrays to store the right answers and the missed number of answers
  • 10 points – uses at least 2 functions in addition to main

Grading turnaround

This lab will be graded with scores in Brightspace by 5pm on May 19th.