What to Hand In (see also: example project solution)

• A Program Organization Chart exhibiting the interactions between major program components. Attach a report to the chart providing a rationale for the program organization.
• A chart illustrating the major data structures your program uses, the transformations they undergo, and the components of your program responsible for these transformations
• A listing of the C program you write for your project, following the required standards.
• A session transcript in which compile and run your progrm to demonstrate its capabilities
• A printed copy of each of the files your program reads during the demonstration session.

Write a program that retrieves data from the file rainfall.dat (available on the Supplied Software page of the class web site), normalizes the data, and displays the normalized data on the screen.

• Data Format of rainfall.dat
  Heading Lines. The first few lines of the data file describe the source of the data. The next-to-last of these lines is a sequence of words (strings containing no spaces) identifying the parameter associated with the corresponding entry in each of the data lines. These are called parameter identifiers, and the line containing them is called the parameter heading. The last of the heading lines contains no characters; this is the only empty line in the heading.
  Data Lines. Each subsequent line of the data file begins with a word identifying the data on the line followed by a space and a sequence of numbers separated by spaces. The word is called the data identifier and the numbers are the data associated with it. Each data line contains the same number of numbers, namely one fewer numbers than the parameter heading has words. This means that the number of words in the parameter heading is the same as the number of words on each data line (since the numbers on the data lines are "words," in the sense defined in the description of the heading lines).
• Display Format
  Heading Lines. Display of heading lines is not required for this problem. If you want an extra challenge, display the heading lines as they were given in the data file, and line up the words in the parameter heading with the corresponding columns of numbers (or, in one case, data identifiers) below them.
  Data Lines. Line up the numbers in columns, and line up the data identifiers in a column under the first word in the parameter heading. You may assume that all of the data identifiers have the same length (that is, that they contain the same number of characters) and that that length is not more than ten. If you want an extra challenge, assume only that all of the data identifiers contain ten or fewer characters.
• Data Normalization
  Normalize the columns of numbers in the data so that they all have unit standard deviation. That is, divide each of the numbers in the k-th column by the standard deviation of the numbers in the k-th column. (The k-th column consists of the k-th number from each of the data lines.)

Ground Rules

• Your program may assume that the input file contains at least one and no more than twenty paramater identifiers (and, therefore, no more than twenty columns of data) and that it contains at least one and no more than fifty data identifiers (and, therefore, no more than fifty rows of data).
• Your program must not assume any specific value for the number of parameter or data identifiers, nor may it assume any specific value (nor even any upper bound) for the number of lines in the heading.
• Your program must contain definitions of functions organized in modules, and it must make profitable use of them.
• Your program may use any aspects of C covered in class or in the assigned readings in the C textbook, but it must not use any aspects of C not covered in lectures or assigned readings. (Exception: you may use aspects of C covered in Lesson 31-34 of the C textbook.)
• The Project Style Guide describes additional requirements.