tristan-oa / Adding-Tuples-to-the-C-Programming-Language

Adding functionality to array operations and introducing tuple representations to the C programming language

Adding Functionality to Array Operations and Introducing Tuple Representations in C

This project was my first university programming assignment. This made part of the CPS1011: Programming Principles in C course, forming part of my B.Sc. in Computer Science.

Task Breakdown

In this project, the following tasks were performed:

1. Array Operations:

   • Cloning functionality was made possible for 3D integer arrays having any size.

   • Reversing functionality was implemented to reverse the order of words in a given array of strings. Eg:

       {"This is the first sentence", "and this is the second"}
       becomes
       {"sentence first the is This", "second the is this and"}
     

2. Tuple Operations:

   • Creation of new tuples, as identified by a string ID and a sequence of element type/value (In the case of an existing identfier, the new tuple replaces the existing one).

   • Tuple Retrieval of a tuple object pointer, given its ID.

   • Tuple ID Retrieval of an existing tuple object, given its pointer.

   • Display of a tuple's contents, given its pointer.

   • Deletion of tuple object, given its ID.

   • Comparison of 2 compatible tuple objects¹, by performing in-order element comparison of their elements, and returning a:

     • +1 if the first non-equal element pair is larger for the first tuple.
     • -1 if the first non-equal element pair is smaller for the first tuple.
     • 0 if all elements are equal.

     1 Compatible tuples are those with the same element number and types, or where the element number/types of the first is a prefix of the second. ↩

   • Joining of 2 tuples, given the 2 pointers of tuples to be joined and a new tuple ID.

   • Saving of all existing tuple objects to disk.

   • Loading of all tuple objects from a saved file.

Documentation

A report describing the design process and motivation behind this project can be found here.

A detailed technical documentation of the source code written can be found here.