Guided Inquiry 20: zyBook Ch. 16.11 + specified exercises

Overview

The purpose of this guided inquiry is to learn about C++ structs, which is a data structure for storing sets of related variables.

Learning Objectives

Basic learning objectives

By the end of this Guided Inquiry, you should be able to:

• describe what a struct is
• describe what data members are
• explain what the member access operator is
• understand the basics of defining and using a struct

Advanced learning objectives

By the end of our next class meeting, you should be able to:

• define a struct from scratch
• create an instance of a struct in a program

Resources

Reference zyBook section 16.11 as needed to complete the specified exercises. You may work with others on the exercises listed below. If you have questions, please talk with a classmate or post your question to Piazza under the "gi 20" tag.

Exercises

Attempt the following. Spend no more than 20 minutes on a challenge activity or lab (unless you want to).

• complete at least 80% of the Participation Activities in section 16.11 of the zyBook
• complete the following Challenge Activities/zyLabs—for every challenge activity you cannot pass at least one test for, please take a screen shot of your final attempt after 20 minutes and submit that here (make sure your photo includes the challenge number)
  
  • Challenge Activity 16.11.1: Enter the output using struct
  • Challenge Activity 16.11.2: Declaring a struct
  • Challenge Activity 16.11.3: Accessing a struct's data members
• post one or more questions to the class Piazza board with the "gi 20" tag (if there's already a post for a question you had, there's not need to add another one; feel free to post anonymously)—please include specific questions rather than just the number of the challenges you want to see done.