CSC1321 Programming Assignment: Data Processing

Tasks

Write a program to read data for Covid-19 in Texas from a data file here and display in web page format. The data processing tasks include:

1. Write a C++ program to read the data from the input file.
2. Output the data into a HTML file in tabular format using HTML table tags. A sample of output file is here.
3. View the HTML file in web browser to check if your program reads and outputs data correctly.
4. Calculate infection and mortality rates (%) for each county.
5. Calculate infection and mortality rates (%) for entire Texas.
6. Find out which county (give out county name) has the highest infection and mortality rates. A procedure of finding the max value among a list of numbers is given below:
   • Define a variable named max for storing the max value among all values
   • Assume the first value is the max initially
   • Use a loop to check each of the remaining values. If the value currently being checked is greater than max, update max with it. Otherwise, ignore it and keep going until all values are checked.
   • Upon the completion of the looping, max store the max value among all values.
   • To record county name with highest rates, you need to define a string type variable, say, maxCounty. Whenever the value of variable max is updated, maxCounty needs to be updated with the county name as well.

     //Sample code
     
     ifstream inData;
     ofstream outData;
     inData.open("inputData.txt");
     outData.open("report.html");
     
     //Print table header
     outData << "<table border=1>" << endl;
     
     //Read off the information about the data
     //Read off the column titles
     //Read off the data entry for the first county
     inData >> ...
     
     while(inData)
     {
        //Processing data including printing a table row for each county
          
        //Read off the data entry for each county
        inData >> ...
     }
     outData << "</table>" << endl;
     

7. If you want to add a remote stylesheet file, feel free to do so. Below is an example of remote stylesheet:

   <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cscdevprod03.txwes.edu/~yzhang/css/course.css" type="text/css">
   

   Note that when putting the link in C++ output statements, make sure to add backward slashes "\" in front of those double quotes inside the link tag to distinguish C++ string double quotes.

What to submit

Submit both C++ program and HTML output file to Blackboard by the midnight of the due day.