Airplane Seat Assignment System

The assignment is to design and implement a C# desktop application that assigns seats on an airplane with 20 first-class seats and 180 economy-class seats. The application should provide features such as assigning seats to passengers, displaying seating status, saving and retrieving the airline's seating state between program runs, and quitting the application. The solution should demonstrate use of appropriate data types, data structures, algorithms, class definition, user interface, and serialization.

Software Development Task
Must use Visual Studio 2015 and Design and implement a C# desktop application (not a
client-server or database application) that assigns seats on an airplane. Assume the airplane
has 20 seats in first class (5 rows of 4 seats each, separated by an aisle), and 180 seats in
economy class (30 rows of 6 seats each, separated by an aisle).
The application should provide the following functionality:
1. Assign seat(s) to passenger(s). When assigning seats, ask for the class (first or economy),
and the number of passengers travelling together (1 or 2 in first class, 1 to 3 in economy).
Then try to find match and assign the seats. If no match exists, display a message.
2. Display seating status (assigned & available) on the computer screen, allowing the user to
select from at least two different sorting orders, e.g. by seat numbers or by passenger
names.
3. Save and retrieve the airplane’s seating state between program runs.
4. Quit the application.
Passenger’s details are not required to be maintained by the system; however, you may add
extra features - both data and functionality to the application, if you wish.
Software implementation should demonstrate/provide the following features
1. Use of appropriate data types (built-in and programmer-defined) to handle the application data
2. Use of appropriate data structures for the required programming scenario
3. Use suitable algorithms e.g. sorting
4. Define and use your own class or classes
5. Provide either console-based or window-based user interface for your application
6. Save and retrieve the objects state using serialization.
Deliverables
The software project and a reflective essay as described below.
1. Your software artefact in the form of a Visual Studio 2015 project, which should include the
program’s source code, compiled classes, the executable file and data file (if any).
2. A reflective essay (1000 words), which concisely documents:
a. detailed instructions to run the program

b. the architecture of your software in terms of software classes, clearly indicating which classes to
be of your own work and which classes from other sources (e.g. from textbooks, online sources, e.g.
MSDN etc.).
c. detailed description of the classes’ properties and methods
d. a description of your algorithm to assign the airplane seats in the form of a flowchart and/or
decision table.
e. which data structures and which algorithms you have used, in which part of your program, and
why.
f. A reflection of your experience of using C# and Visual Studio for the development task, which
feature you like and why, what issues you experienced and your solution to overcome it.