ACOM1900: Coursework 2

Submission deadline: 9am, Mon 10th March 2008

This assignment is worth 30% of the assessment for ACOM1900

Task

Your task is to DESIGN a piece of software that reads the details of academic papers from a file (the file format is described below) and prints the following information in alphabetical order, screen-by-screen:

• a list of the authors (assume every author appears on a separate line)
• a list of the journals (assume every journal name fits on one line of the screen)

Your design should be presented as PSEUDOCODE which shows the detailed working of your software. To do this, you should:

• Break down your software into suitable functions
• Include a header that describes the purpose of each function, the parameters passed to it, and any returned value(s)
• Use pseudocode to show the design of each function

You can assume that the following two library functions are provided, and these have the following headers:

SortList( MyList )
#
# The SortList function sorts the list that is supplied in MyList into alphabetical order.
#

GetNumberLinesOnScreen()
#
# The GetNumberLinesOnScreen function returns the number of lines of text that can be displayed on a screen.
#

Format of input file

The file is a TAB-delimited text file (e.g., cw2-example-file-format.txt, with four columns:

• author(s) - where there are multiple authors they are separated by a ';'
• year of publication
• title
• journal

Submission

Your work should be handed in in PLAIN TEXT, WORD, or PDF format, and include your name and student number within the document. Your work should be emailed (as an attachment) to acom1900@comp.leeds.ac.uk, from a .leeds.ac.uk email address.

Roy Ruddle, February 2008