Database System Concepts
Database System Concepts
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ISBN: 9780078022159
Author: Abraham Silberschatz Professor, Henry F. Korth, S. Sudarshan
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Lab #5 - The Psychic Computer Network
One stormy night, as Dionne worked diligently on her Computer Programming labs, a bolt of lightning struck the house. The power surge raced through her computer, causing it to emit a strange glow. A strange new program appeared on her computer called "psychic". Dionne told all her friends that this program was capable of predicting the future. If they wanted to use the program, for a small fee, they could download it from her web site.
Objective - To write a program that will predict the future Method - 1. Use the main procedure to
a. Prompt the user for his/her lucky number. Use this number as input to the srand function found in cstdlib
b. Prompt the user for which life topic he wishes his predictions based. Based on the user's response call one of three functions. Suggestions are love, finance, and school, but you may use three of your own choosing. Use a nested if-else statement to control which function is called.
2. Each function will
c. Call the rand function
d. Use value generated by the rand function and modulo division as the selector expression in a switch statement.
e. Theswitchstatementwillprintoutthepredictions.
f. Allow for five different predictions per function.
3. Prompt the user to see if they want another prediction. Keep executing the program until the user tells you to quit. Make sure that you code for all possible user inputs, including wrong ones.

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