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This project simulates a simple application where information about a restaurant is made available to the user. The user can do any of the following: print all restaurants (including information about each restaurant), print all ratings for a restaurant specified by the user, add more ratings to a restaurant he or she specifies, print a specified restaurant's rating, edit a specified restaurant's rating, and lastly add a new restaurant if it has yet to exist in this application.
In addition to the tasks this application accomplishes above, the project also includes a new class called User. With the implementation of this User class, there is now support to allow the user to log into the application, and have their restaurant information saved in text files.
When the user first logs into the application, the default information regarding the restaurants is provided by a function; however, once the user has logged in at least once, this function will not be called anymore. Instead, the information regarding the user's restaurants will be loaded from text files and stored into objects within the program.
The objective of this program is to demonstrate the following:
- show a basic understanding of classes and how they work, including the init constructor, setters, getters, and now polymorphism
- introduce file input and output through various functions
- further utilize the concept of encapsulation in this simple program and work with attributes that are made private to the user
In this program, the user can enter anything, even when prompted with entering an integer menu selection, and the program will still function as intended.
The project was designed to be ran in the command prompt on windows machines. You can download the RestRatingsPart5 directory and save it onto your device. Then, run the command prompt and change the directory until you are within the RestRatingsPart5 folder. Afterwards, you can run make and the project should compile. Otherwise, you may need to change the file path within the code manually in order for the code to compile.
Once the file path is set up correctly, you then are prompted to log into the application. For this version of the project, you need to use the following login credentials: the name should be Garrett and the password is garrettbovo.
Once the project is open, you will be prompted with a menu display different menu options. To continue, you will need to enter a letter that corresponds to one of the menu options; otherwise, an error message will be displayed.
For some menu options, the program requests a restaurant index and rating index input from the user. The restaurant/rating index that the program is requesting is the index in which the user's chosen restaurant/rating appears in the already initialized list. Recall, in a list, the first element is at index zero, the second element is at index one, and so forth. To see which restaurants are at which restaurant index, you can input the character "A" for the menu selection, and then a list of the restaurants at their specified index is printed to the screen.
For menu options D and E, the program will request the restaurant index from the user, which we just went over above. Then, the program will request the rating index from the user. The logic regarding the ratings indices parallels that of the restaurant indices; however, there is no menu option to print all of the ratings a given restaurant has. Each restaurant that has been initialized by the program begins with two ratings; therefore, if no ratings have been added to a restaurant at a specified index, then the only valid inputs for menu option D are "0" and "1". Once new ratings have been added to a restaurant, then valid rating index inputs will contain more strings than simply "0" and "1", such as "2", "3", and so forth.
Name: Garrett Ellis
Project Link: https://github.com/Python-Coding-Assignments/Restaurant-Ratings-Part-5/tree/main