The Purpose

The Assignment

What to Turn In

1. You are to write the function prototypes for each of the functions you plan to have in your project. For this exercise, you must include the names of the parameters in the prototypes, not just their types. Each prototype should have a full function header comment above it as shown in the C Coding Standards and with a description of what the function does. Make sure to include the function prototypes for the functions that are required for this project.

2. In addition to the prototypes, you should have one large comment that consists of two or three paragraphs explaining your design. This explanation should be sufficient so that one of the lecturers could draw a diagram of function calls from it (like the one we did in class for project 1).

3. Since we are now working with data structures, you should include the structure definition(s) that you will be using in your project and also discuss any arrays you'll be using and how they are being used, including their sizes. Make sure to use the required structures with the members shown. You may add other members if you want to and have good reason to do so, however, for most designs the structures are fine as shown.

This design document is to be a plain text file created using a text editor. Do NOT use a word processor to create this document. The file MUST be called design3.txt

Why and How Much Does This Count

Your design3.txt file will be compared to the header file or files that you submit when project 3 is due. Minor changes to the design are allowed. A minor change might be the addition of another parameter to a function's parameter list, or the addition of another function or two.

If there were major changes between the design document and the header files that are part of the final project, you will lose 5 points. This would indicate that you didn't give sufficient thought to your design before beginning the implementation.

Submitting the Design File

submit cs201 Proj3 design3.txt

To verify that your design document was submitted, you can execute the following command at the Unix prompt. It will show all files that you submitted in a format similar to the Unix 'ls' command.

submitls cs201 Proj3