I have done a homework assignment, here is the problem statement:
Your program should work as follows:
- Ask the user to give you a file name. Get the file name and save it.
- Open the file.
- From the file read a temperature and a wind speed. Both values should be stored in variables declared as double. The file is a text file. Each line of the file contains a temperature and a wind speed value.
Calculate the wind chill factor using a programmer written method, and display the result in the form:
For t = temperature from file and v = wind speed from file Wind chill index = calculated result degrees Fahrenheit.
Show all numbers with two digits after the decimal point. (Remember-no magic numbers!)
Repeat these steps until an end of file is encountered.
I have completed the assignment, my code is below, I was just wondering if there was any way to make it more efficient, or if there are some different and creative ways to accomplish this problem, I already turned this in and got 50/50, but I'm just curious as to how some of you advanced and skilled programmers would approach this problem.
using System;
using System.IO;
class Program
{
// declare constants to use in wind chill factor equation - no magic numbers
const double FIRST_EQUATION_NUMBER = 35.74;
const double SECOND_EQUATION_NUMBER = 0.6215;
const double THIRD_EQUATION_NUMBER = 35.75;
const double FOURTH_EQUATION_NUMBER = 0.4275;
const double EQUATION_EXPONENT = 0.16;
const int DEGREE_SYMBOL_NUMBER = 176;
static void Main()
{
// declare and initialize some variables
string filePath = "";
string line = "";
double temperature = 0.0;
double windSpeed = 0.0;
double windChillFactor = 0.0;
char degreeSymbol = (char)DEGREE_SYMBOL_NUMBER;
// ask user for a file path
Console.Write("Please enter a valid file path: ");
filePath = Console.ReadLine();
// create a new instance of the StreamReader class
StreamReader windChillDoc = new StreamReader(@filePath);
// start the read loop
do
{
// read in a line and save it as a string variable
line = windChillDoc.ReadLine();
// is resulting string empty? If not, continue execution
if (line != null)
{
string[] values = line.Split();
temperature = double.Parse(values[0]);
windSpeed = double.Parse(values[1]);
windChillFactor = WindChillCalc(temperature, windSpeed);
Console.WriteLine("\nFor a temperature {0:f2} F{1}", temperature, degreeSymbol);
Console.WriteLine("and a wind velocity {0:f2}mph", windSpeed);
Console.WriteLine("The wind chill factor = {0:f2}{1}\n", windChillFactor, degreeSymbol);
}
} while (line != null);
windChillDoc.Close();
Console.WriteLine("\nReached the end of the file, press enter to exit this program");
Console.ReadLine();
}//End Main()
/// <summary>
/// The WindChillCalc Method
/// Evaluates a wind chill factor at a given temperature and windspeed
/// </summary>
/// <param name="temperature">A given temperature</param>
/// <param name="ws">A given windspeed</param>
/// <returns>The calculated wind chill factor, as a double</returns>
static double WindChillCalc(double temperature, double ws)
{
double wci = 0.0;
wci = FIRST_EQUATION_NUMBER + (SECOND_EQUATION_NUMBER * temperature) - (THIRD_EQUATION_NUMBER * (Math.Pow(ws, EQUATION_EXPONENT))) + (FOURTH_EQUATION_NUMBER * temperature * (Math.Pow(ws, EQUATION_EXPONENT)));
return wci;
}
}//End class Program
Feel free to tell me what you think of it.
