For this homework, you will work independently to solve one problem in two programming languages, Python 3 and C#.
Your program files will be called hw4.py and hw4.cs, respectively.
Part of the grading for this assignment will be based on your usage of Python 3 and C# features and data structures that are appropriate to the problem. In particular you should utilize language features that make your program shorter, more readable, and/or more reliable.
Submit a zip archive that contains your two files: hw4.py and hw4.cs.
Mail merge program. You will write two equivalent programs: one in Python 3 and one in C#. They will be invoked on ceclnx01 as shown here:
python3 hw4.py a.tsv a.tmp
mcs hw4.cs
mono hw4.exe a.tsv a.tmp
where hw4.exe is your compiled C# code. The first command line argument is a tab separated file of records -- a.tsv (tsv stands for “tab separated values). The second one is a form letter with embedded codes -- a.tmp. Sample .tsv and .tmp files are provided in the archive TestFiles.zip in Canvas - Files - Homework Assignments - HW4 (Note: matching files have matching names: b.tsv and b.tmp; c.tsv and c.tmp, etc.).
Here are the contents of the a.tsv file:
NAME
ID
COURSE
DUE
SUBMITTED
MINUTESLATE
Steve Smith
smiths
465
2/5/2016 23:59:00
2/6/2016 0:45:00
46
Mark Watson
watsonm
465
2/5/2016 23:59:00
2/6/2016 3:47:00
228
Kenny Briddle
briddlek
465
2/5/2016 23:59:00
ontime
0
Bill Haygood
haygoodb
565
2/5/2016 23:59:00
ontime
0
(continuation)
LATEDEDUCTION
P1
P1COMMENTS
P2
P2COMMENTS
SUBTOTAL
TOTAL
1
35
Excellent work
65
Nice
100
99
5
30
Test case 10 provides
65
Well done
95
90
incorrect output;
otherwise, nicely done.
0
15
Many test cases missing.
55
Missing the report.
70
70
0
0
Not attempted
65
Nice
65
65
Here are the contents of the a.tmp file:
Name: <<NAME (<<COURSE)
ID: <<ID
Total: <<TOTAL/100 Subtotal: <<SUBTOTAL Total deductions:
<<LATEDEDUCTION
Time due: <<DUE
Submitted: <<SUBMITTED
Late minutes: <<MINUTESLATE
Late deduction: <<LATEDEDUCTION
Problem 1: <<P1/35
<<P1COMMENTS
Problem 2: <<P2/65
<<P2COMMENTS
When run, your program should produce one output file for each record in the file. The file should be named using the ID column. In this case, the four files should be smiths.txt, watsonm.txt, etc. Here is one of the output files:
Name: Steve Smith (465)
ID: smiths
Total: 99/100 Subtotal: 100
Total deductions: 1
Time due: 2/5/2016 23:59:00
Submitted: 2/6/2016 0:45:00
Late minutes: 46
Late deduction: 1
Problem 1: 35/35
Excellent work
Problem 2: 65/65
Nice
Notes:
All columns in the tsv file will have a unique name.
One of the tsv columns will have the name ID.
Any string inside the tmp file having the form <<letters+ is considered a tag.
The field values in the tsv file may contain << and . These values are to be treated literally and not to be substituted as a tag.
