🎟️ Project 4 – Movie Ticket Discount Tool (in C)

This is Project 4 in a series of mini exercises for beginners learning C programming. Each project in the series helps you practice essential programming concepts such as variables, conditionals, formatted output, logic flow, and working with external files.

🔍 What this project adds to your learning:

• ✅ Use of multiple bool flags for logic branching
• 🧾 Nested if / else conditionals
• 🧮 Calculating cumulative percentage-based discounts
• 📂 Reading from an external file using fopen(), fgets(), and fclose()
• 🎨 Displaying styled ASCII art from a .txt file

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📌 About this project

This mini project is a Movie Ticket Discount Tool, designed to simulate a terminal-based ticketing system that calculates and applies discounts based on user input.

When the program is run, it:

• Displays a styled ASCII banner (read from a .txt file)
• Asks if the user holds a membership card (Y/N)
• Asks the user's age
• Applies relevant discounts depending on age and membership
• Calculates and displays the final ticket price

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🖥️ Example Output

Two sample runs are shown below:

• Without any discount
  

• With combined discounts
  

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🧠 Challenge Instructions

If you’d like to practice building this project yourself before reviewing the solution, follow these steps:

1. Display a custom ASCII banner from a text file using fopen(), fgets(), and fclose().
2. Prompt the user to confirm if they have a membership card (Y/N).
3. Ask the user for their age.
4. Based on the input:
   • 💳 Card members: get 10% off
   • 👶 Students (under 18): get 10% off
   • 🧓 Seniors (65+): get 20% off
   • 💡 Multiple discounts can apply (e.g. member + senior = 30% max)
   • ❌ No discount if none of the above apply
5. Calculate the final ticket price with a max total discount of 30%.
6. Print the result clearly with 2 decimal places.

Note: This project is already complete and includes the full solution. You can explore the code in main.c, the ASCII banner in src/ascii_art.txt, and the output samples in the img/ folder.

Happy coding! 🍿🎬