Guided Inquiry 25: zyBook Ch. 9.1, 9.5, 9.6 + specified exercises

Overview

The purpose of this guided inquiry is to introduce you to streams in general and file input streams specifically.

Learning Objectives

Basic learning objectives

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

• describe what a stream is
• describe the difference between input and output streams
• classify what type of streams cin and cout are
• open a file for reading
• check that a file is open
• read data from a file

Advanced learning objectives

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

• read lists of data from files
• read tables of data from files
• read struct data from files

Resources

Reference zyBook sections 9.1, 9.5, and 9.6 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 25" tag.

Exercises

Attempt the following. Spend no more than 20 minutes each  (unless you want to).

• complete at least 80% of the Participation Activities in each section 9.1, 9.5, and 9.6 of the zyBook
• download this zip file of exercises and data files Download this zip file of exercises and data files and complete:
  • what this video for how to use Visual Studio Code to complete the exercises and run tests for each one Links to an external site. (zyLabs don't support writing to files)
  • gi25.1.cpp (requires data.txt)
  • gi25.2.cpp
  • gi25.3.cpp
• post one or more questions to the class Piazza board with the "gi 25" 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.

Upload the three .cpp files with your attempted solutions (no pictures this time).