BudgetC is a budgeting program designed to track a user's monthly budget for one calendar year. Specifically, it tracks expenditures in five user-defined categories, along with income and savings contributions.
The accompanying wiki has additional details about the program's structure and capabilities.
BudgetC was submitted as a final project for Computer Science II, CSC 250, at Dakota State University during the Spring 2020 semester. The course instructor was Joel Wohnoutka.
BudgetC implements the following topics discussed in the course:
- 2D Arrays
- Command Line Arguments
- File I/O
- Header Files
- Sorting
- Structures
This repository contains the following files:
| File | Description |
|---|---|
LICENSE |
The BudgetC license. |
bud.txt |
This file stores the user's budget. |
budget.c |
This is the main program file. |
db.txt |
This file stores the user's data. |
myFuncs.c |
This file contains the program's functions. |
myFuncs.h |
This is an included header file. |
README.md |
The program documentation. |
Compile and launch BudgetC with the following commands:
$ gcc budget.c myFuncs.c
$ ./a.out bud.txt db.txt
Please see the repository Wiki for detailed program documentation. 😉
BudgetC > Main Menu
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Enter 1 ... to record data
Enter 2 ... to print your budget
Enter 3 ... to print a monthly report
Enter 4 ... to print a yearly report
Enter 0 ... to quit BudgetC
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Option:
Main Menu > Monthly Report
Here is your monthly report for January:
Category Budgeted Spent Remaining
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Housing $ 200.00 $ 200.00 $ 0.00
Food $ 200.00 $ 100.00 $ 100.00
Transport $ 200.00 $ 100.00 $ 100.00
Bills $ 200.00 $ 50.00 $ 150.00
Fun $ 200.00 $ 50.00 $ 150.00
Cash Budgeted Current
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Income $ 2000.00 $ 1000.00
Savings $ 100.00 $ 100.00
Savings Balance:
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Contributions to date: $100.00
Spend Analysis:
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Monthly expenses: $ 500.00
Savings contributions: $ 100.00
Estimated income: $ 2000.00
Remaining balance: $ 1400.00
Alerts:
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Nice job! Your spending is within budget.
Main Menu > Yearly Report
Here is your yearly report:
Category Budgeted Yearly Spend
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Housing $ 2400.00 $ 400.00
Food $ 2400.00 $ 200.00
Transport $ 2400.00 $ 200.00
Bills $ 2400.00 $ 100.00
Fun $ 2400.00 $ 100.00
Cash Estimated Actual
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Income $ 24000.00 $ 4000.00
Savings $ 1200.00 $ 200.00
Expense totals sorted from highest to lowest:
Category Yearly Spend
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Housing $ 400.00
Food $ 200.00
Transport $ 200.00
Bills $ 100.00
Fun $ 100.00
The author expresses his gratitude to Joel Wohnoutka, the course instructor, an outstanding teacher who inspires his students to write clear, well-commented, and neatly formatted code.
BudgetC is released under MIT license.