Movie Rental App

October 2014 to November 2014

About:
This application simulates the back-end of a popular movie streaming and rental platform using data structures such as Map and Queue. It include features such as search by title, actor, or subject; a movie check-out and check-in system; a movie rating system; a user login and registration system; persistant data tracking; and a movie recommendation system based on user's previous movie ratings. The basic front-end controls are based on the Qt library. The back-end originally utilized my own data structures, but was later replaced with STL classes for extra credit.

Quick Start Guide:
1. Enter qt-workspace directory by typing cd qt-workspace.
2. Type the following, in order, to make: qmake -project qmake make.
3. Run the program by entering ./qt-workspace data.txt.

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Project Part 4 (Final)

1. Enter qt-workspace directory by typing cd qt-workspace.
2. Type the following, in order, to make: qmake -project qmake make.
3. Run the program by entering ./qt-workspace data.txt.

• Note: Do not log in with the same username if you have just logged out. This will delete the user's queue.
• Note: Quit the program entirely after successfully creating a new user. Not doing so may end up crashing the program.
• Note: Feel free to use the provided 'refresh' button if the window doesn't update.
• Note: Formats for data files have been changed. See the samples given in qt-workspace/data.
• Note: Do NOT use the data files in data/ as they are for non-QT parts of the project.
• Note: The Dijkstra's part (10%) of the similarity estimate was not implemented. The basic similarity factor is the one used in recommending.

I attempted the following options (6 bells & whistles):

• STL Data Structures
• Actors
• User Fields
• Modify Ratings

Last modified December 7th

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Project Part 1

• To open the application, while in the uppermost directory, type make all then ./bin/movie_app data.txt
• Note that all data files must exist in the 'data' subdirectory.
• 'bin' will be automatically generated when 'make all' is ran.

Last modified October 12th

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Project Part 2

• To open the application, while in the uppermost directory, type make all then ./bin/movie_app data.txt
• Note that all data files must exist in the 'data' subdirectory.
• 'bin' will be automatically generated when 'make all' is ran.
• The gtest set_test.cpp can be accessed in the tests folder.
• Note: Log out alone will not save the user's current queue. User must exit the program all the way for the queue to be saved onto the user database.
• Note: The only way to add a movie to queue is to search a movie by keyword, and only by a keyword.

Last modified October 29th

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Project Part 3

1. Enter qt-workspace directory by typing cd qt-workspace.
2. Type the following, in order, to make: qmake -project qmake make.
3. Run the program by entering ./qt-workspace data.txt.

• Note: DO NOT log in with the same username if you have just logged out. This will delete the user's queue.
• Note: You may need to click the 'refresh' button (only) after adding movie to queue. Every other function will automatically refresh the window.
• Note: Searching for a movie by keyword may display multiple movie information simutaneously.
• Note: This program CANNOT track the "Movie" keyword in its user data file. Having this keyword in its data file will result in errors.

Last modified November 30th