Customer Accounts Scenario

Assume that you have been asked to create an application that stores the following data about a customer account: Last Name, First Name, Customer number, Address, City, State, Zip Code, Telephone Number, Account Balance, and Date of Last Payment. The application should allow the user to save customer account records to the file, search the file for a customer by last name or customer number, and print a report listing all the customer records in the file.

Input validation: When entering a new record, make sure the user enters data for all customer info. Do not accept negative numbers for the account balance.

Discussion

This lesson focused on Structures. Make an argument either for or against using a Structure for storing the customer data indicated above.

1. Describe how you would store the data, giving the data type you would use for each item.

a. Explain why you chose to use a structure.

or

b. Explain why you chose not to use a structure.