OVERVIEW

The purpose of this assignment is to get you back into programming and give you some practice with the new concept of recursion. It also utilizes many of the C$++$ topics that you should be familiar with from your first course in C$++.$

Suggestion: Get in the habit of reading the instructions carefully. Make notes about the various requirements. If you simply skim the instructions, you run the strong risk of losing points.

Tip: This tip applies to all Lab assignments. Information is to be displayed and entered in the order in which you see examples in the instructions. If you change displayed text or input order because you think it looks better, you risk losing points. All of your career, you will be developing software that has instructions, often called Requirements. Start today learning to follow the instructions you are given. This includes any input prompts that show an example or range of values.

Visual Studio Warning:

There are times when you will find that a Visual Studio project gets messed up$.$ That happens, so do not beat yourself up for it$.$ Simply start over.

Some of you may discover that in Visual Studio you can link in existing code files, and in the work world, this can be beneficial. However, in CSIS $112,$ doing this will cost you points. The reason for this is that the project will compile and execute on your computer. When you zip up the entire project to submit it$,$ the zip process only pulls in the files and folders that are directly below your start point in the folder hierarchy. When you link files into a Visual Studio project, they do not necessarily reside in the project folder hierarchy. Here are the steps you need to follow to ensure all code files are inside the project folder.

$1.$ Determine the folder that your code files are in for the new project.

$2.$ Using File Explorer, copy, not cut, the code files from the old project folder and paste them in the folder you determined in step $1$ above.

$3.$ Then open the new Visual Studio project and do these steps to add the code files.