Task Requirements

A) Upon startup, the program should prompt user to enter a ‘configuration’ filename. The program then proceeds to read the contents (of the entered filename) to further initialize its own program parameters / data structures. Please refer to Appendix A, which provides details on the configuration file and its usage.

B) The meteorological station has adopted a map-grid coordinate system upon which it overlays all other weather data. With regards to display city map option, please refer to Appendix B, which elaborates on this coordinate system, the unit representation, the relative positioning of different cities and its display requirements.

C) For the display requirements of cloud coverage (cloudiness index), AND cloud coverage (LMH symbols) (i.e. options 3) & 4)), please refer to Appendix C, which will discuss about the interpretation of cloud cover input data, its subsequent processing algorithm and output format requirements.

D) For the display requirements of atmospheric pressure (pressure index) AND atmospheric pressure (LMH symbols) (i.e. options 5) & 6)), please refer to Appendix D, which will discuss about the interpretation of pressure input data, its subsequent processing algorithm and output format requirements.

E) For the display requirements of weather forecast summary report, please refer to Appendix E, which will provide details about the kind of summarized weather data to be displayed, processing algorithm to compute the probability of rain and its graphical display format.

F) Refer to Appendix F, for a description of the program’s main menu requirements

G) Once the program is completed and tested to be working successfully, you are encouraged to add on “new features” to the program that you feel are relevant to the problem. Additional marks may be awarded subject to the relevancy and correctness of the new functionalities. ( Note : the additional features will only be considered IF the program has correctly fulfilled all the basic requirements elaborated in the earlier sections! )

H) You are not allowed to declare your own C++ classes for this program, as this is a purely procedural (not Object Oriented) programming assignment!

I) You are to use only C++ language to develop your program. There is no restriction on the IDE as long as your source files can be compiled by g++ compiler (that comes installed in Tutor’s Ubuntu Linux) and executed in the Ubuntu terminal shell environment.