The objective of this assignment is to create an application to maintain a list of friends contact details using c. program is primarily meant for users to key in their names and contact details, like a phonebook. User can add, edit, delete and search contacts using part of their information. Users should be able to quite the menu and add more records whenever they wish to.
To be successful in this project, we have to make a Buddy book which is user friendly and error free as possible.
3. Project description
Our main objective is to make a buddy book which allow users to add contacts, edit them, search for a contact by a letter or name, display all contacts and remove a contact from the list..
Main menu of the program provide 5 options.
Add a friend
Modify friends' details
Display all my friends
Search friends
Exit
Adding a contact
When adding a new contact to buddy book user is promote to enter these details.
Enter First Name:
Enter Last Name:
Enter Home Number:
Enter mobile Number:
Do you wish to add more numbers to phonebook(Y/N)?
If the user selection is "Y" above procedure is repeating. If user selection is "N" user redirected to main menu.
Modifying a contact
When a user selects this option it will displays all the saved contacts in buddy book and prompt user to select a contact by contact order. After selecting the contact number to edit, program will give these options to select.
Full Contact Press 1
First Name Press 2
Last Name Press 3
Home Number Press 4
Mobile Number press 5
Go to main menu press 6
Exit press 7
Selection 1-This gives user to modify a full contact. He can modify all the fields in the contact.
Selection 2-if he selects number two he can only modify first name of the contact.
Selection 3- If he selects number three he can only modify Last name of the contact.
Selection 4- If he selects number four he can only modify Home number of the contact.
Selection 5- If he selects number five he can only modify mobile number of the contact.
Selection 6- If he selects number six he will redirect to main menu.
Selection 7- If he selects number seven program will exit.
Display all contacts
This will display the entire contacts store in buddy book. If there isn't any contacts store in buddy book, it will display
Phonebook is empty; do you want to add contacts? (Y/N)
If user selects 'Y' he will prompt to add contact menu. If he select 'N' he will prompt to main menu.
Search contacts
In search menu there are two options user can select to do a search
Search by first letter
Search by first name
Search by first letter
Users prompt to enter a character and the program will display all records with names that start with that character.
Search by first name
This will display all records starts with that entered name
Flow chart
Main menu
Add contacts menu
Modify menu
Search menu
5. Pseudo code
BEGIN
read choice
Case choice
case 1 : Add friends
case 2 : Modify friends details
case 3 : Display all my friends
case 4 : Search friends
case 5 : Exit
default: display "Invalid selection"
End case
read count=0
If(choice==1)
If(count==10)
display "You have exceeded the buddy book capacity"
Else
display "Enter the first name"
read firstName
display "Enter the last name"
read lastName
display "Enter the home number"
read homeNum
display "Enter the mobile number"
read mobileNum
count=count+1
display "Data successfully saved!!!"
display "Do you wish to add more numbers(Y/N)?"
read respond
If(respond=='Y')
return to case 1
Else
return to main menu
End if
End if
Else if(choice==2)
display "Phone book contact list"
i=0
while(i<=count)
display firstName
display lastName
display homeNum
display mobileNum
i++
End while
display "Enter the number of the contact that you want to modify"
read respond
If(respond>count) or (respond<0)
display "You have entered an invalid number. Check and enter the correct number"
Else
display "If you want to modify:"
display "Full contact Press1"
display "First name Press2"
display "Last name Press3"
display "Home number Press4"
display "Mobile number Press5"
display "Enter your choice"
read respond
If(respond==1)
display "contact you want to modify is:"
display firstName
display lastName
display homeNum
display mobileNum
display "Now enter your new data"
display "Enter new first name"
read firstName
display "Enter new last name"
read lastName
display "Enter new home number"
read homeNum
display "Enter new mobile number"
read mobileNum
display "Data successfully saved!!!"
display "Do you want to modify an another contact(Y/N)?"
read answer
If(answer=='Y')
return to case 2
Else
return to main menu
End if
End if
Else if(respond==2)
display "contact you want to modify is:"
display firstName
display lastName
display homeNum
display mobileNum
display "Now enter your new data"
display "Enter new first name"
read firstName
display "Data successfully saved!!!"
display "Do you want to modify an another contact(Y/N)?"
read answer
If(answer=='Y')
return to case 2
Else
return to main menu
End if
Else if(respond==3)
display "contact you want to modify is:"
display firstName
display lastName
display homeNum
display mobileNum
display "Now enter your new data"
display "Enter new last name"
read lastName
display "Data successfully saved!!!"
display "Do you want to modify an another contact(Y/N)?"
read answer
If(answer=='Y')
return to case 2
Else
return to main menu
End if
Else if(respond==4)
display "contact you want to modify is:"
display firstName
display lastName
display homeNum
display mobileNum
display "Now enter your new data"
display "Enter new home number"
read homeNum
display "Data successfully saved!!!"
display "Do you want to modify an another contact(Y/N)?"
read answer
If(answer=='Y')
return to case 2
Else
return to main menu
End if
Else if(respond==5)
display "contact you want to modify is:"
display firstName
display lastName
display homeNum
display mobileNum
display "Now enter your new data"
display "Enter new mobile number"
read mobileNum
display "Data successfully saved!!!"
display "Do you want to modify an another contact(Y/N)?"
read answer
If(answer=='Y')
return to case 2
Else
return to main menu
End if
Else
display "Invalid code"
End if
Else if(choice==3)
display "Phone book contact list"
i=0
while(i<=count)
display firstName
display lastName
display homeNum
display mobileNum
i++
End while
Else if(choice==4)
read first_char
read first_name
display "Search"
display "If you want to search by:"
display "first letter Press1"
display "first name Press2"
display "Enter your selection"
read selection
If(selection<0) or (selection>2)
display "Invalid code"
Else if(selection==1)
display "search by first letter of the name"
display "Enter first letter to search"
read first_letter
i=0
while(i<=count)
i++
If(first_letter==first_char)
display firstName
display lastName
display homeNum
display mobileNum
Else
display "No matches found"
End if
End while
Else
display "search by first name"
display "Enter first name to search"
read first_name
i=0
while(i<=count)
i++
If(first_name==firstName)
display firstName
display lastName
display homeNum
display mobileNum
Else
display "No matches found"
End if
End while
End if
Else if(choice==5)
display "Are you sure that you want to exit(Y/N)?"
read answer
If(answer=='Y')
abort
Else
return to main menu
End if
Else
display "Invalid selection"
display "Check the menu and enter your choice again"
End if
END
6.User Guide
Start menu
This is the main screen of the buddy book. Press any key to go to main menu.
Main menu
You can select what you want to do by pressing a number
Add contact
In add new contact menu you can enter a new contact by first name, last name, home number and Mobile number
When all contact details are entered the following message will appear. If you select 'y' you can add more contacts.
Modify contacts
Here you should enter the number of the contact which you want to modify.
This display the contact you want to modify. Press 'y' to go to the modifying menu.
In this menu you can enter what part of the contact you want to modify.
If you select 1 in previous menu this menu appears and user prompt to add new details for selected contact.
Once all the details are entered and press enter key, this menu appears .If you want to modify another contact press 'y'.It will redirect to modify menu. If you want to go to the main menu press any key except 'y'.
Display all contacts
Here you can see all the contacts details you entered.
Contact search menu
Here you can select search options. You can search a contact by first letter of the contact and first name of the contact.
Enter the first letter of the contact and press enter. It will display all the contacts start with that letter.
Enter the first name of the contact which you want to search and then press enter. It will display all the contacts which have that first name.
Exit
If you select exit option in any menu this program aborted window is displays. If you select ok buddy book will exit.
7.Limitations
Here we are going to say some things about the limitations in the program that we developed.
In this program we had to limit the number of contacts to 6 .An attempt to add more contacts would give an error message.
We applied some limitations when entering data. In the case of number of characters also we had to limit the amount. For the home number and office number fields only integers can be applied and limit that to 15 integers in each field.
Here we can search a contact only by first letter and first name. we can't search a contact by last name or a contact number.
In this phonebook we can't add a middle name of a person to the phone book.
In our buddy book only add two numbers for a person. If person have more than two numbers there aren't any way to add all numbers into a one contact.
8. FURTHER Development
There are some limitations in the program that we have developed. One limitation is the amount of contacts that we included in the program. In a future development we hope to increase the amount of contacts.
In the program that we developed there are a few fields such as first name ,Last name, home number, mobile number etc .In future we would like to increase these by including fields like e-mail address and home address of a contact .
Further we hope to introduce more methods of searching contacts in a future development. There are limitations in the computer language we used. If we are to use a computer language with graphical user interface, we would be able to introduce much more interactive computer program. Therefore in future we would like to use a language with GUI.
If we use programming languages which support GUI, we can put an option to add a real photo of a user to his contact details.
Also we can add a data saving option to the buddy book. So users can store contacts and can use it in future.
We can add a data sorting option to this program. So when a user search something results automatically sorted and display to user. So it becomes more user-friendly.
9. Conclusion
It is a great pleasure for us to having got an opportunity to express some of our ideas at successful conclusion of this project. This project gave us an opportunity to put into practice some of the lessons that we were taught theoretically at the lecture room. We obtained a vast knowledge when we engaged practically in this project. We put into practice the units Functions, Flow charts, Arrays, Structures, Pseudo codes .These are very important lessons for us In C Language.
This project gave us an opportunity to work as a team to achieve a common goal. With that we learnt how to work as a team with a team sprit to accomplish a common goal.
