CS 54 - Lab 10

Lab Assignment

The physicists at the Stimsonian Institute are incessantly working with measurements that add and subtract groups of numbers. The Institute has mobile sensors that gather data and write them to files. They have asked you to write a program to automate some of the calculations for them.

Lab Assignment - Part I (Required - 8 Points)

Write a program that will connect to an input file that with 6 numbers in it. Then create an array of 3 numbers that consists of the first added to the fourth number, second added to the fifth number, and third added to the sixth number from the input file (for those more math inclined, this is basically adding two vectors in Euclidean three space). Then write the resulting three numbers to another file. Be sure and prompt the user for both file names.

Lab Assignment - Part II (Required - 10 Points)

Extend your Part I to write a second array of three numbers to the output file. This second array is defined similarly as in Part I, but by subtracting the numbers instead of adding them (again, this is subtracting two vectors in Euclidean three space).

Lab Assignment - Part III (Extra Credit - 12 Points)

Create a third array and define it as the cross product of the two input vectors. Write the result to the output file.

Grading & Submission

• Correctness - 70%
  1. Does it compile?
  2. Does it work?
  3. Are there any bugs?
  
  
• Coding Style - 30%
  1. Each level of indentation is two spaces.
  2. The program is commented.
  3. The program conforms to the coding standards as outlined by the CS 54 Style Guide.