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The assignment requires students to create a simplified version of Twitter called 'Micro Tweets', focusing on a tweet structure with specific attributes. Students will develop a simple application with a menu for creating, searching, displaying, saving, and loading tweets. The grading will be based on struct definition, data storage, user login, menu interactivity, and overall functionality.

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COMP 1410 Assignment 3 (1) .PDF

The assignment requires students to create a simplified version of Twitter called 'Micro Tweets', focusing on a tweet structure with specific attributes. Students will develop a simple application with a menu for creating, searching, displaying, saving, and loading tweets. The grading will be based on struct definition, data storage, user login, menu interactivity, and overall functionality.

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University of Windsor COMP1410 - Summer 2019 School of Computer Science

Assignment 3
(Worth​ 10% ​of the final course grade - Due date August 8, 2019​)
Prof. Sherif Saad
Micro Tweets, Let’s make our own simple twitter…
A “tweet” is a special object that is the fundamental building block of Twitter. If you are
curious about the composition of a tweet you can familiarize yourself with the developer
pages available here:

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/data-dictionary/overview/tweet-object

You can see that the tweet is quite a complex concept/entity, which is why we would focus
instead on a much simpler version called “Micro Tweet”. It is a good start for us to create
a simple twitter application.

A micro tweet will be composed of the following:


● id int; which uniquely identifies the simple tweet
● created_at char[51]; that would store the UTC time and date. Note that UTC is the
coordinated universal time, which is a common standard on the Internet.
● text char[141]; allow up to 140 characters.
● user char[21]; the user name of the person who posted the tweet

You are asked to create a structure definition for a micro tweet called “tweet”.
You will then need to create a simple application with the following menu functionality:
1. Create a new tweet
2. Search tweets
3. Display tweets
4. Save tweets to file
5. Load tweets from file
6. Exit

When the user first starts the program he/she is prompted to enter his/her user name. The
menu is then displayed.
1. Create a new tweet This option will automatically generate the next highest value for
id, the locate date/time for the created_at in UTC, and prompt the user for the
tweet’s text. The new record is stored at the next available location in the array. If
the array has reached capacity then no new records may be added.
2. Search tweets This option will search all tweets’ text for occurrences of a certain
keyword string entered form the user. It will search the text of each tweet, then
display all the tweets that contained this keyword.
3. Display tweets​ This option will display to the console screen all the tweets.
4. Save tweets to file This option will save all the tweets to a file. The user is
promoted for the filename. A simple status is generated accounting to the number of
records saved. Use a sequential text file.
5. Load tweets from file This option will retrieve all the tweets stored in the file. The
filename is provided by the user. The loaded records will replace all existing
records. Note that any new record added at this point will have to have the next
available id as per the new records (i.e. the next max value).
University of Windsor COMP1410 - Summer 2019 School of Computer Science

Marking Scheme
You will be graded as follows:
1. Struct definition setup ​[10 POINTS]
2. Using LinkedList to store the tweets ​[30 POINTS]
3. The user login ​[10 POINTS]
4. The main menu interactivity ​[15 POINTS]
5. Each of the 5 menu items in a separate function​ [5 pts each = 25 pts]
6. The correct compilation, output ​[10 POINTS]

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