ackground:

Your program will resemble one of th

ose "computerized" systems hanging

off the shelf at Wal-Mart in the automotive

section which tells the user what the model

number of the proper air filter for their car

is. For those of you who have never used one

before, they work like this. You push a

button to start the program, and you are

presented with a menu. This menu prompts you

for the make of your car. You are then

given another menu and prompted for the

year of manufacture. You are then given

another menu prompting you for the size of

the engine. This continues until the system

has enough information to enable it to adequately identify the mode

l of filter for your

car. Your program will do the

same thing except that it will be considerably simpler.

Specifications:

There shall be only three pieces of information necessary to identify the

filter: the make of the auto, the year manuf

actured, and the number of cylinders in the

engine. The make will be one of the following: Edsel, Austin, Catepiller, and Jaguar.

Personally, I prefer the Catepiller for crui

sing the streets of Rolla. The year of

manufacture will be from 1985 to 2005, inclus

ive. The Edsel can have 6 or 8 cylinders,

the Austin 4 or 6 cylinders, the Catepiller

15 or 20 cylinders, and

the Jaguar 6 or 12

cylinders.

Your program is to generate an air filter

model number. Every model number will have 5

characters. The first character will be the first letter of the make of the automobile

(make it uppercase). The second and thir

d characters will represent the year of

manufacture (e.g. 83 for a vehicle made in

1983). The last two characters will be the

number of cylinders (e.g. 04 for a four-cylinder

vehicle). Your program is to output that

filter model number. Of course,

there are many ways to do th

at. I will leave it up to you

to determine your method.

One possible way is to gather the info into se

parate "pieces" and output it at the "end"

of the program. Thus, at every step of th

e user input to your

program, a different

variable should be assigned

information about the user's

vehicle. For example, when

prompted for make, you might set a variable

to J for Jaguar. You might subsequently set

the year variable to 93 and set a variable

for the number of cylinders to 12. The model

number for this filter will then be J9312. You

may have other ideas of how to put all this

information together into one variable, though

this can take special efforts. You decide.

Your program is to have a menu at first to read

in the make of the vehicle. I'll talk about

menus in class. The number of

cylinders, depending on the make of the vehicle, will be

determined by the next prompt. The final piece of information necessary is the year of

the vehicle and that will be prompted for last

. The menu is to have a QUIT option. If the

user chooses the QUIT option, then control drops to the end of the program and exits

with the message, "QUITTING". If the model number is completed, then it is output to

the user and the "goodbye" message is displayed. Of course, the "goodbye" should be

displayed in any case. If you wish, you may use other menus after the

first.

~Stipulation:

the year is to be read in as a 4-digit integer value.

Your program is to output the make, year

, number of cylinders and the model of the

filter it recommends.

Note:

In this assignment, you are

required to use the if-else decision branching statement. forbidden from using the switch-case statement.

Remember: As always

Use good variable names

Use constants where appropriate

Use good formatting of your code and ad

here to the good programming practices

in general