Overview

Reading and writing to files is a constantly used way of transferring data in many different kinds of programs. Websites, such as news sites, and various phone applications are both excellent examples of this widespread use. Phone apps in particular will always read and write to files, since the alternative of writing to databases would be too large for their purposes. Another example is an application you use for daily tasks such as writing in a Microsoft Word file and uploading it as a Brightspace submission $($to later be downloaded by your instructor$).$ All of these demonstrate the importance and prevalence of reading and writing to a file as a method of information sharing.

Later in this course, you will need to be able to share information between C$++$ and Python as part of completing a larger task. Practicing reading and writing to a file this week will help prepare you for that later work. Although you will eventually have a broader understanding of working with files in multiple different programming languages, for this assignment your work should only be completed in C$++.$