CPT111: PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING

CPT111: PRINCIPLES OF PROGRAMMING

SEM II 2023/24ASSIGNMENT 2

Document Checking Application (DCA App)

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You are required to write C++ program to develop an application called Document Checking Application (DCAApp) using C++ program to determine the similarity of the documents. The DCA app is supposed to read boththe original text files and the input text files. Then the app should compare the content of the text files todetermine if they are identical or not. If the content of both text files is identical, then the apps should printout “Reject - Both documents are identical”. However, if the content of both text files is not identical, the appis supposed to calculate and display the percentage of similarcontent and the acceptability status. The statusof document acceptability is determined as follows:

• Accepted if the percentage of similarity is less than 15%.
• Accept with a condition to improve the content if the percentage of similarity is between15% to 25%.

• Reject if the percentage of similarity is above 25%.

The app should list the similar words between the files for the case of Accepted and Accepted with a condition to improve the content. Furthermore, the application should be capable of showing line numbersthat have similar words. The app should ignore the empty space.The program must at least be able to do the following.

• Read text file (original document) as input.

• Read another text file (to compare document) as input.

• Compare the similarities of the two documents.

• Provide appropriate information as described above.

• A program should continue until a user asks to stop.The design of the program should meet the following requirements:General requirements:

• Input validation.
• Interactive menu
• Good Interface Design (i.e. Presentable manner and easy to use and understand)
• Meaningful comments in the source codesSpecific requirements:

• Modular program that consists of several functions to perform a specific task.
• Your program should demonstrate the use of: 2D arrays, user defined functions and passingparameters by value, arrays, and reference as well as return a value.

• Read data only once from a text file and store them into appropriate array(s)
• Data must be retrieved and processed from the array(s)

The program must NOT:

• Use pointer of array
• Use build in library <vector>
• Open the same file more than once and close it more than once.
• Allow the program to be terminated without the consent of the user.
• Use global variables.

INSTRUCTIONS

• Please submit your assignment individually
• Name your program as follows: matricNo_assgn2 E.g. 12345_assign2
• Upload your program to eLearning. Deadline: 21 June 2024 11.59 PM

Important Notes:

All assignments must be submitted before/on the given date. Late submissions without priorapproval from the lecturer will not be accepted.Plagiarism/pirating and copying are severe academic offenses. Students that are found toplagiarize/or reproduction (copying) will get an F for the assignment or for the whole courseworkgrade.

You must design your own solution and write the program on your own. DO NOT ask GPT!!!