Project #8 Solution

Description

Define a class called Item that consists of a string called name, a double called price, and  an int called quantity. The price represents the price per unit, so if you have  an Item with the name “apple”, the price “0.80” and  the quantity 4, then it means that this Item represents 4 apples, with each apple costing 80 cents.  It should have  get and  set methods for each field (following the normal naming convention – getName, setName, getPrice, setPrice, getQuantity and  setQuantity).  It should have  a constructor that takes three  parameters (in the order  given

above) and passes them to the set methods. It should have  a default constructor that sets name to “”, price to

0.0 and quantity to 0, again using the set methods.

Define a ShoppingCart class which contains as a data  member an array of pointer-to-Item (Item*) that can contain up to 100 Item pointers. It should also have  an int data  member called arrayEnd that keeps track of the index of the next empty spot in the array.   You should have  a default constructor that initializes each element of the array  to NULL and  initializes arrayEnd to zero.   It should have  a function called addItem that takes as a parameter a pointer to an Item and adds it to the array  (and  updates arrayEnd). It should have  a function called totalPrice that returns the total cost of all Items in the ShoppingCart (for which you must take into account the quantity of each Item).  Your classes may get used as follows:

Item a(“affidavit”, 179.99, 12); Item b(“Bildungsroman”, 0.7, 20); Item c(“capybara”, 4.5, 6);

Item d(“dirigible”, 0.05, 16);

ShoppingCart sc1; sc1.addItem(&a); sc1.addItem(&b); sc1.addItem(&c); sc1.addItem(&d);

double diff = sc1.totalPrice();

Potential parenthesis pitfalls: Remember not to use empty  parentheses when  declaring an object.  If you are invoking a constructor that takes parameters, then  you would use parentheses with parameters inside, but if you are  invoking the default constructor, you don’t use parentheses at all.  Also remember that all function calls must have  parentheses – if a function doesn’t take any parameters, then  you must put an empty  pair of parentheses.

The files must be called: Item.hpp, Item.cpp, ShoppingCart.hpp and ShoppingCart.cpp.

Item.cpp and ShoppingCart.hpp should both #include Item.hpp.  ShoppingCart.cpp should #include ShoppingCart.hpp. The main method you write for testing will also need to include ShoppingCart.hpp.  If you named the file with your main

method “cartMain.cpp”, then you can compile your program with “g++ Item.cpp ShoppingCart.cpp cartMain.cpp -o cart”.