Theater SeatingThis program should be designed and written by a team of students. Here are...

Theater Seating

This program should be designed and written by a team of students. Here are some suggestions:

• One student should design function main , which will call the other functions in the program. The remainder of the functions will be designed by other members of the team.

• The requirements of the program should be analyzed so each student is given about the same work load.

• The parameters and return types of each function should be decided in advance.

• The program can be implemented as a multi-file program, or all the functions can be cut and pasted into the main file.

Here is the assignment: Write a program that can be used by a small theater to sell tickets for performances. The theater’s auditorium has 15 rows of seats, with 30 seats in each row. The program should display a screen that shows which seats are available and which are taken. For example, the following screen shows a chart depicting each seat in the theater. Seats that are taken are represented by an * symbol, and seats that are available are represented by a # symbol:

Here is a list of tasks this program must perform:

• When the program begins, it should ask the user to enter the seat prices for each row. The prices can be stored in a separate array. (Alternatively, the prices may be read from a file.)

• Once the prices are entered, the program should display a seating chart similar to the one shown above. The user may enter the row and seat numbers for tickets being sold. Every time a ticket or group of tickets is purchased, the program should display the total ticket prices and update the seating chart.

• The program should keep a total of all ticket sales. The user should be given an option of viewing this amount.

• The program should also give the user an option to see a list of how many seats have been sold, how many seats are available in each row, and how many seats are available in the entire auditorium.

Input Validation: When tickets are being sold, do not accept row or seat numbers that do not exist. When someone requests a particular seat, the program should make sure that seat is available before it is sold.