There must be a way to supply the application with the input data via text file. The application must run. You should provide sufficient evidence that your solution is complete by, as a minimum, indicating that it works correctly against the supplied test data. Please note that you will be assessed on your judgment as well as your execution.
A hotel chain operating in Miami wishes to offer room reservation services over the internet. They have three hotels in Miami: Lakewood, Bridgewood and Ridgewood. Each hotel has separate weekday and weekend(Saturday and Sunday) rates. There are special rates for rewards customer as a part of loyalty program. Each hotel has a rating assigned to it.
- Lakewood with a rating of 3 has weekday rates as 110$ for regular customer and 80$ for rewards customer. The weekend rates are 90$ for regular customer and 80$ for a rewards customer.
- Bridgewood with a rating of 4 has weekday rates as 160$ for regular customer and 110$ for rewards customer. The weekend rates are 60$ for regular customer and 50$ for a rewards customer.
- Ridgewood with a rating of 5 has weekday rates as 220$ for regular customer and 100$ for rewards customer. The weekend rates are 150$ for regular customer and 40$ for a rewards customer. Write a program to help an online customer find the cheapest hotel. The input to the program will be a range of dates for a regular or rewards customer. The output should be the cheapest available hotel. In case of a tie, the hotel with highest rating should be returned.
<customer_type>: <date_1>, <date_2>, <date_3>, ...
<name_of_the_cheapest_hotel>
INPUT 1: Regular: 16Mar2009(mon), 17Mar2009(tues), 18Mar2009(wed) OUTPUT 1: Lakewood
INPUT 2: Regular: 20Mar2009(fri), 21Mar2009(sat), 22Mar2009(sun) OUTPUT 2: Bridgewood
INPUT 3: Rewards: 26Mar2009(thur), 27Mar2009(fri), 28Mar2009(sat) OUTPUT 3: Ridgewood