Blog: CS301 Assignment No. 1 Announced

Assignment No. 01
SEMESTER Spring 2011
CS301- Data Structures

Total Marks: 20

Due Date: 19/04/2011

Instructions

Please read the following instructions carefully before solving & submitting assignment:

It should be clear that your assignment will not get any credit (zero marks) if:

o        The assignment is submitted after due date.

o        The submitted code does NOT compile.

o        The submitted assignment does NOT open or file corrupt.

o        The assignment is copied (from other student or ditto copy from handouts or internet).

Uploading instructions

Your Submission must include:

1. A working Make File (Dev-C++ project File).
2. All the Source Code (.h and .cpp files) necessary to compile and run your program.
3. Place all the files in a folder then Zip this folder and Upload it on VU-LMS

Note: Use Dev-C++ IDE.

Objective

The objective of this assignment is

o   To give you some practice exercise of linked list Data Structure.

For any query about the assignment, contact at cs301@vu.edu.pk

Question Assignment:

The Josephus problem is the following mass suicide "game": n people, numbered 1 to n, are sitting in a circle. Starting at person 1, a handgun is passed. After m passes, the person holding the gun commits suicide, the body is removed, the circle closes ranks, and the game continues with the person who was sitting after the corpse picking up the gun. The last survivor is tried for n - 1 counts of manslaughter. Thus, if m = 0 and n = 5, players are killed in order and player 5 stands trial. If m = 1 and n = 5, the order of death is 2, 4, 1, 5.

Write a C++ program to solve the Josephus problem for general values of m and n using circular linked list data structure.

Input:

• Number of People: n
• Number of Passes: m

Output:

• Order in which people are removed
• The survivor

Sample Run:

Enter total number of People playing the game: 10

 

Enter number of Passes: 3

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Game Started!

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à Person removed: 4

à Person removed: 8

à Person removed: 2

à Person removed: 7

à Person removed: 3

à Person removed: 10

à Person removed: 9

à Person removed: 1

à Person removed: 6

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ààà The survivor is : 5

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Lectures Covered:  This assignment covers Lecture # 1-5

Deadline: Your assignment must be uploaded/submitted at or before 19/04/2011.