Project 1


Objective:
The purpose of this lab project is to expose you to selection, loops and enforce the use of functions.

Problem Specification:
Passaic County Parking Authority needs a C++ program to compute and print for customers, who park in their parking lot, a statement detailing the parking fare when the following information is given:
a. A character showing the type of vehicle:
‘C’, ‘c’  for car
‘V’, ‘v’ for Van
‘S’, ‘s’  for SUV
‘B’, ‘b’ for bus
‘T’, ‘t’ for truck
b. An integer between 6 – 23 showing the hour the vehicle entered the lot.
c. An integer between 0 – 59 showing the minutes the vehicle entered the lot.
d. An integer between 6 – 23 showing the hour the vehicle left the lot.
e. An integer between 0 – 59 showing the minutes the vehicle left the lot.

This is a public lot. To encourage people to park for short period of time, the county uses two different rates for each type of vehicle, as shown in the table below.
Type
First Rate
Second Rate
Car
$0.00/hr. first 3 hours
$1.50/hr. after the first 3 hours
Bus
$1.00/hr. first 2 hours
$2.50/hr. after the first 2 hours
Truck
$2.00/hr. first hour
$3.50/hr. after the first hour

Input data consists of a vehicle type and 4 integers representing entering and leaving hours and minutes. In a user friendly way (using prompts). Write a program to read the data from the keyboard, compute the customer’s bill, and print an appropriate statement.
Typical data entered

B, 14, 23, 18, 8

Where 	B indicates Bus,
14 represent 2:00 PM
23 represent 23 minutes after 2:00
18 represent 6:00PM and
8 represent 8 minutes after 6:00.

Requirements:
Lot is open from 6:00AM to midnight.
No vehicle is allowed to stay in the parking lot later than midnight and will be towed away.
Charges are in increments of hours, if parked 2 hours and 1 minute, its 3 hours.
Cars, Vans and SUV’s are treated as Cars
Trucks are two classes (‘S’ or ‘s’ for small, uses Bus Rate and ‘L’ or ‘l’ for large uses Truck Rate.
Comment thoroughly. Include: your name, course #, date, program name and a brief explanation of what does the program does.
Follow good structured programming practices,
Should do the hierarchical chart first
Should do a flowchart/algorithm next
Define constants as you see fit. If you have to, define the constants locally.
Pass by value and by reference as needed
Use at least 3 functions to represent input, process and output.
Each function must have specifications.
Output the result as shown below.

Additional requirements
A prompt controlled loop to allow us to enter new data set or leave the program.
Validate the data such that only valid vehicles are allowed to enter the lot including small trucks and large trucks.
Validate the data such that the Time-in is less than the time-out.



Output for the program for each data set is as follows.

Passaic County Parking Authority

           Parking Lot Charges

Type of Vehicle:  Bus

Time–In 	2:23 PM
Time–Out 	6:08 PM
	____________
Parking-Time 	3 Hrs:45mins

Rounded Parking Time	4 hours
	____________

TOTAL DUE	$6.00 // Makes no sense; 4 => 2 + 2 => 2*1 + 2*2.5 = 7

Thank you for using Passaic County Parking Authority

Do you have another vehicle? (Y/N)


  Grading criteria:
 5 points	Good programming practices: Proper spacing, comments, use of variables, indentation and appearance of program.
  5 points	constants are used.
10 points	Flowchart or algorithm for the function main only is handed-in and is correct.
  5 points	Hierarchical chart is handed-in and is correct.
  5 points	Proper heading and footing is printed.
  5 points	output is aligned and looks good.
15 points	functions are properly used; parameters are properly passed.
  5 points	calculations are used correctly and the correct results are printed.
10 points	a prompt loop is used to enter another vehicle’s data.
10 points	all data entered is validated and messages are printed for incorrect data.
20 points 	Program runs correctly and produces the intended results.
  5 points	program runs and tests all given data below.