CS Lab Project:

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The owner of a small theater in an isolated town in Montana has hired you to develop the backend for an online ticket reservation system. Your program will allow attendees to select seats and display the current seating arrangement. At the end of the program, a report will be generated for the owner indicating how many seats were sold/unsold and how much money was earned.

Implementation:

• Your source file must be proj-0-sln.cpp
• Read the file into the 2D array
• Determine if seats are available
  • Reserve them if available
  • Determine if number of seats requested is possible in a row
• Write the report to the console
• Write the 2D array to a file

Details

• The seating arrangement for each auditorium will be stored in a file.
  • Prompt the user for the filename at the beginning of the program
• Each line in the file will represent a row in the auditorium. The number of rows in the auditorium is unknown to you.
  • There will be a newline character after each line in the file except for the last line which may or may not have a newline character.
• The maximum number of rows is 10.
• The number of seats in each row of the auditorium will be the same.
• No row will have more than 26 seats.
• Each auditorium will be held in a two-dimensional array, 10 rows x 26 columns. (-10 points if not)
• Reserved seats are represented by a letter (A, C or S) in the file. This will be used to create reports
  • A = adult
  • C = child
  • S = senior
  • Empty seats are represented by a period (.)
• Reserved seats will be represented by a hashtag (#) on the screen
  • The user does not need to know what type of ticket was sold, just that a seat is reserved. There is no need to worry about multiple screenings or reserving seats on a specific day. Ticket prices are as follows:
  • Adult - $10
  • Child - $5
  • Senior - $7.50

User Interface and Input:

Present a user-friendly menu system for the user.

1. Reserve Seats 2. Exit 

Loop the menu until the user decides to quit. Imagine this is for a ticket kiosk in the lobby of the theater.

If the user wants to reserve seats, display the current seating availability for that auditorium. An example seating chart is provided below for an auditorium with 5 rows and 20 seats per row.

 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST 1 ...##..#####........ 2 ########....####..## 3 .........##......... 4 #.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#.#. 5 ########.#####.##### 

The rows are numbered and the seats are identified in each row by a letter of the alphabet.

After the seating chart has been displayed, prompt the user for the following information in the order below:

• Row number
• Starting seat letter
• Number of adult tickets
• Number of child tickets
• Number of senior tickets

Assume that the user wants to reserve sequential seats to the right of the first seat entered. Adult tickets will be reserved first, followed by child and then senior. All seats must be open for a reservation to be processed.

If the desired seats are not available, offer the user the best available seats that meet their criteria on that row only. The best available seats are the seats closest to the middle of the row measured by the distance from the center of the selection to the middle of the row. Prompt the user to enter a Y to reserve the best available or N to refuse the best available. Once the selection has been processed, return to the main menu. If there are no alternate seats available, display no seats available to the user instead of a prompt and return to the main menu.

All input will be of the valid data type. You do not have to worry about the user entering a letter when a number is expected or a floating point number when an integer is expected. You are responsible for validating that the data falls within the proper range and that a user does not try to reserve a seat that is already reserved. If the users selection extends past the end of a row, consider this invalid.

User Interface Workflow:

Please do not add extra prompts since this will cause a mismatch in the input which will either force the program to throw an exception or cause the program to perform an unintended operation.

• Prompt for filename
• Display main menu
• Prompt for input
• If user is reserving tickets
  • Prompt for row
  • Validate loop until valid
    • Valid row = row number listed in auditorium display
  • Prompt for starting seat
  • Validate loop until valid
    • Valid seat = seat number listed in auditorium display
  • Prompt for number of adult tickets
    • Validate loop until valid
    • Valid ticket number = number >= 0
  • Prompt for number of child tickets
    • Validate loop until valid
    • Valid ticket number = number >= 0
  • Prompt for number of senior tickets
    • Validate loop until valid
    • Valid ticket number = number >= 0
  • If seats unavailable
    • Display best available
  • Prompt user to reserve (Y/N)
  • Return to main menu
• Loop to top of workflow until user selects exit

Output:

Display the best available seats in the following format: -

Example: 3D 3F

At the end of the program, write the current status of the auditorium to A1.txt. Remember to write the auditorium reservations using A, C and S to identify the type of ticket sold. Also, display a report to the console using the following format:

Total Seats: Total Tickets: Adult Tickets: Child Tickets: Senior Tickets: Total Sales: 

Total Sales is the total amount of money collected for tickets in the whole auditorium.

All values except total ticket sales will be an integer value. Total ticket sales will be a floating-point value rounded to 2 decimal places