[SOLVED] Programming project 1 ee312

General: This project will give you a chance to dust off all the cobwebs on your
programming skills. The project requires that you understand characters and strings,
arrays, functions, loops and conditionals (all prerequisite knowledge). However, just
because this is technically “a review”, don’t assume it’s easy! You’ll write a very simple
spell checker. You must produce the output EXACTLY as specified in this document.
There is some flexibility permitted in your solution to encourage you to adopt your own
ideas for an algorithm. The limits to that flexibility are explained below. Any extra
output, or output that is inconsistent with these requirements will result in lost points.
Your Mission: Edit the file “Project1.cpp”. You must implement the function
spellCheck. You may find it useful to write several other functions as well. In fact, I
encourage you to avoid writing the whole project as one big (ugly) function. You will
find big (ugly) functions are very difficult to debug, and we will find it very difficult to
help you. For this assignment, you should keep all your functions in one file –
Project1.cpp. They should all be C, and you should not use C++-only features.
There is only one stage on this project, writing the spellCheck routine. The spellCheck
function has two parameters. The first parameter (article[]) is a pointer to an array of
characters. The contents of this array are an article that you need to spell check. The end
of the article is marked with the normal 0 (marking the end of a string). Thearticle
includes punctuation, upper and lower case words, numbers, and abbreviations. Your
function must print every word in the article that cannot be found in the dictionary. The
dictionary is the second parameter to the function (more on this later).
For this project, a word is a sequence of two or more letters with no intervening
punctuation, numbers or other non-letters. The character immediately preceding the first
letter in the word must not be a letter, or it must be the beginning of the article. The
character immediately following the last letter in the word must not be a letter, or it must
be the end of the article. So, for example, if the article were, “The red firetruck went
round a corner at 50mph”, there would be eight words (the, red, firetruck, went, round,
corner, at, mph). Note that “truck” doesn’t count because it is embedded inside
“firetruck” (the character immediately preceding ‘t’ is a letter). Note that “a” is not a
word because it is not at least two letters long. And finally, note that mph is a word even
though the character preceding the ‘m’ is not a space. Words don’t have to be preceded
by a space, just by something other than a letter (or the start of the article, of course).
These rules are intended to make finding words EASY. Just look for a letter, that marks
the beginning, and keep scanning for consecutive letters. When you run out of letters,
that marks the end.
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For each word in the article, you must see if there is a matching word in the dictionary.
The dictionary is also a character string. The end of the string is marked (as always) with
a 0. The end of each word is marked with a ‘
’. A word in the dictionary can contain
any character (other than the ‘
’ character). That means the dictionary can contain words
like “don’t” or “can’t”. Naturally, words from the dictionary that have non-letter
characters in them (like “don’t”) will never match a word from the article. Such words
can still appear in the dictionary. All words in the dictionary are sorted in alphabetical
order.
For this project, a word in the article matches a word in the dictionary if the characters
from the two words are the same except for the case of the letters. So “cAT” and “Cat”
match each other, while “Id” and “I’d” do not match each other. For every word in the
article, determine if there is a matching word in the dictionary. If there is a matching
word, do nothing. If there is not a matching word in the dictionary, print the word from
the article.
You can print the words in several ways, depending on how you store the words in
memory. If the word is terminated with a 0 like a regular string, then you can use printf:
printf(“%s”, word);
If your strings are not terminated with the zero, then you will need to print them one letter
at a time (using a loop). You can print a single letter in one of two ways:
printf(“%c”, letter);
or
putchar(letter);
When you’re debugging your program, you will want to make sure that all the characters
you have printed show up on the screen. That may sound silly, but it is a real problem.
The computer does not always put characters on the screen, even if you’ve used printf or
putchar to print them! If you want to make sure characters have been forced to the
screen, print a new line (“
”) or use fflush(stdout).
OUTPUT REQUIREMENTS: Your function must only print the misspelled words
from the article. Each word that you print must be printed on a line by itself (i.e., you
must print a ‘
’ after each word of output). You may print words in all lower-case, in all
upper-case or in mixed case. The case (upper/lower/mixed) that you print the word does
not need to match the case that is used in the article. Finally, you must only print words
that (a) satisfy the definition of being a word for this project (see above) and (b) do not
appear in the dictionary. If the same misspelled word appears more than once in the
article, then you may print that word exactly one time, or you may print that word as
many times as it appears in the article. Your program must produce no output other than
the misspelled words (one word per line). Please keep in mind that we will test your
program with different articles and different dictionaries than have been provided to you.
Your program should work with any article or dictionary that satisfies the requirements
listed above. Not all articles start with a letter or end with a letter. Not all articles have at
least one word. Not all dictionaries have at least one word.
Guidance/Advice
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We strongly recommend that you develop the project in phases. Your first goal should be
to produce a working program that correctly reads (and prints) all the words from an
article. Print the words regardless of whether the word is spelled correctly or spelled
incorrectly. Don’t just sketch pseudo-code of this phase – really write it, compile it, run it
and debug it. Once you can discover and print each word from the article, proceed to the
next phase of development where you begin consulting the dictionary for each word and
printing the word(s) only when it is misspelled. It is a truism for EE312, if you can make
the time to write each program twice (even if you don’t build all the functionality into
your first version of the program) you will learn more and learn more quickly than if you
try to do the entire project at once.
Project 1 requires no knowledge of pointers. If you are very comfortable with pointers,
feel free to use them. If you are not comfortable, then don’t use them. The solution to the
project has exactly zero occurrences of “*” in the .cpp file (no kidding). Don’t use
variable length arrays in your solution. Think about what size you want to make your
arrays.
Finally, when we are considering the bonus point for Project 1, we are looking for a
combination of good program design (good coding style, including comments,
indentation and variable/function names as well as a concise implementation of the
required functionality), and a robust implementation (your program works correctly
under all reasonable sets of input). Good luck!
Submission
You must include header.c at the top of your submission file. Then submit Project1.cpp
only. If Canvas renames your file because of multiple submissions, that’s OK.
FAQ
Q: What files do I copy over to kamek.ece?
A: Copy over Project1.cpp, Makefile, the input .txt files – everything in the starter_files
directory. Don’t copy stuff from your CLion folder except your source code.
Q: I am getting an error related to C++11.
Q: On kamek, you should type in the command ‘module load gcc’ each time you log in.
A: The makefile is giving strange errors!
A: First, if you are on a 64 bit computer, go into the Makefile and remove the -m32 flag.
Just search for it and remove all instances of it.
If it still doesn’t work, try using
> touch Project1.cpp
This updates the timestamp on your file.
Then try
> make clean
> make
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This rebuilds the project from scratch.
Q: How can I test and debug my project?
A: You can test it by typing in
> make test
in your terminal. This runs the created executable with the given input file.
Make sure to write your own tests, though.
Debugging is a little trickier. You can use your IDE’s debugger, or text-based GDB, or
for now you can use printf to output variables you want to see to the terminal.
Q: Are we allowed to call functions we write in the same file?
A: Please do! Using one function would be harder to read. Just know that we won’t call
them from our main while testing.
Q: What do I submit?
A: Submit your Project1.cpp file. Make sure that all your functions are in this one file.
Q: May I use the C++ standard library?
A: No. You may use the standard C library, but you don’t have to.
Q: What is a segmentation fault?
A: A segmentation fault means your program tried to access an address that it couldn’t
get to. This usually means you tried to read past the end of a string, but it could be any
invalid memory access.
Note that the files look something like this to your program:
Dictionary:
word1
word2
word3
….lastword

Text file:
word1 word2’word3
word4….
CHECKLIST – Did you remember to:
¨ Re-read the requirements after you finished your program to ensure that you
meet all of them?
¨ Include the header file (filled out) at the top of your submitted file?
¨ Make sure that your program passes all our testcases?
¨ Make up your own testcases?
¨ Check that your solution works on kamek.ece?
¨ Upload your solution to Canvas?
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¨ Download your uploaded solution into a fresh directory and re-run all testcases
on kamek and CLion?