Library console application

Faraj — Today at 2:45 PM
I'm building this project consisting of a library app that borrows & returns books, very simple. I've been with this for 3 days and now I gave up. I decided to ask using thread instead. I'm trying to implement 2 functions that enable the user to borrow and return books. So the user should only enter a book name/ title for example "Harry Potter" and the book should be displayed followed by the rest of the information. Any hints? https://paste.mod.gg/mlprnnmurnpu/1

so do you want user just input book Title and get the book details?

Exactly

I am so tired of this man

supposedly it should look like this

To borrow a book  Remove a book from LibraryBooks Add it to a list called myBooks

To return a book Remove a book from a list called myBooks Add a book to Library Books

ok, i've got the idea

so what's the main concern here?

Well! I'm bad at writing logic. I've made a dictionary for the books and a user inputs + a list for the borrowed books

But I don't how to connect the all together

Basically, I need to write a logic where I could add and remove books between the dictionary and the list

A user wants to borrow a book like Harry Potter, remove it from the dictionary and add it to a myBooks list, and the opposite when returning

Do you think this a wrong way of building the project?

after looking your code, u can just use a List rather than a dictionary

may I know why were u using dictionary?

my first suggestion is create a function to iterate a list if that book is exist by getting title parameter

like TryGetBook(title, out BookClass book)

Well! I choose a dictionary just for the practicing sake. I want to learn how to use it.

oh ok all good, but for your case dictionary wont be neccessary, you can use book.id as the key

Ok! So if I use the book.id as the key, could I keep the dictionary or should I change it to a list?

list

this

u can use like this

or u can split into two

IsBookExist (return bool), GetBook(string title) return a Book obj

Ok! I haven't used this kind of code before 😆 but I can give it a try.

splitting your function is good for long term

Ok! Which function do I need to split?

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