The Paint Estimator

Begin by writing pseudocode for Program Five

Then write the calculations for this test case: The room is 14 ft long, 12.8 in wide, and 8 ft high. Paint the ceiling. Coverage is 2500 $ft^2$ /gallon. PercentNoPaint = 10. Compare it to your program to see if it is running correctly.

This will be a multi-file program

You just got a job at the C++ Hardware Store in the paint department. Customers come in and ask you how much paint they will need to paint a room, walls, and ceiling. You do not paint windows or doors. You want to make use of your programming skills, so you write a program to calculate the gallons of paint needed.

In the main function, you will need to declare the variables needed. After you write your course header function, WriteHeader, open a do-while or while loop. Then you will call these functions:

1. AskForNameAndShape, in which you will ask for the customer's name and then ask him/her whether the room is rectangular or circular. The function has a void return and is passed the customer’s name and shape (rectangular or circular) by reference. Shape may be represented by an int, a string, or even a bool. Your choice. Comment to explain your choice.

2. AskForPaintInfor, in which you ask the user the number of coats to paint, the coverage of the paint chosen (in square feet per gallon), and whether to paint the ceiling (the user enters true /false or 1/2 or a string, your choice). The functions also have a void return and are passed the number of coats, the paint coverage, and whether to paint the ceiling using references. If the shape is rectangular, call the rectangle-based AskForDimensions and HowManyGallons.If the shape is circular, call the circle-based overloaded functions.

3. AskForDimensions, which asks the user for the appropriate dimensions and a description of the data:

   Rectangular: length, width, height, and a description string like: "Your room is length feet by width feet and height feet high." You may want to use a stringstream to build the string.

   Circular: radius, height, and a similarly constructed string description These are two overloaded functions with this name, one for the rectangular room, one for the circular room. These functions also ask the user to provide an estimate of wall space that consists of doors and windows. (in %). Both functions have void returns and are passed the dimensions and percent of the walls not to paint, and a description using pointers.

4. HowManyGallons, which passes the dimensions, the paint info, and the percent of walls not to be painted. It returns an int, the number of full gallons to buy. The function calculates the wall area to be painted, the ceiling area (if any), and, using the number of coats and the paint coverage, calculates the exact amount of paint, and then figures out how many whole gallons to buy.

This function is also overloaded.

There will be one function for the rectangular shape, and one for the circular room. They will be passed the dimensions, the paint coverage, the number of coats, whether the ceiling will be painted, and the percentNoPaint.

To Summarize the functions:

Return Type	Function Name	Function Arguments	Function Description
void	WriteHeader	()	Intro to the program
int	HowManyGallons	(double length, double width, double height, int coverage, int coats, string ceiling, int percentNoPaint)	Calculations how many cans of paint needed for a rectangular room
int	HowManyGallons	(double radius, double height, in coverage, int coats, string ceiling, int percentNoPaint)	Calculates how many cans of paint needed for a circular room
void	AskForNameAndShape	(string &rName, int rShape)	Gets info from customer
void	AskForDimensions	(double *pRadius, double *pHeight, int *pPercentNoPaint string *pDimens)	Gets dimensions of the circular room
void	AskForDimensions	(double *plength, double *pWidth, double *pHeight, int *pPercentNoPaint, string *pDimens	Gets dimensions for the rectangular room
void	AskForPaintInfo	(int&rCoats, int&rCoverage, string &rCeiling)	Gets info on the paint used
void	Goodbye	()	Say Goodbye
void	DoAgain	()	Ask if the user want to calculate more rooms

In main after the calculations are returned, display the results to your customer:

1. The customer's name, the shape and dimensions of the room, whether the ceiling is to be painted, how much will be subtracted for doors and windows, the number of coats, and the paint coverage.

2. Then report the exact amount of paint required, and the number of whole gallon cans of paint needed. Present this information in a nicely formatted manner.

3. You may write this report as a string, perhaps using stringstream, or simply using cout.

4. Write your results to 2 decimal places of precision.

Ask the customer if they want to estimate another room. When the customer has finished, write a good-bye message to the customer before exiting.

Core Features

• Overloaded Functions
• Pointers and References
• stringstream(ss)

The Library Usage

• Cmath

Contributions

I welcome contributions to the program! Who knows? It might not run on the user's end. If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or any kind of feature requests, please contact me or submit a pull request.