Learning OutcomesIn this project you will demonstrate your understanding of loops, if statements, functions, and arrays,by writing a program that first reads a file of text data, and then performs a range of processing tasks onthe data. The sample solution that will be provided to you after the assignment has been completed willalso make use of structures

Learning Outcomes
In this project you will demonstrate your understanding of loops, if statements, functions, and arrays,
by writing a program that first reads a file of text data, and then performs a range of processing tasks on
the data. The sample solution that will be provided to you after the assignment has been completed will
also make use of structures (covered in Chapter 8), and you may do likewise if you wish. But there is no
requirement for you to make use of struct types, and they will not have been covered in lectures before
the due date.
Sequential Data
Scientific and engineering datasets are often stored in text files using comma separated values (.csv
format) or tab separated values (.tsv format), usually with a header line describing the contents of the
columns. A standard processing framework on such data is to first read the complete set of input rows
into arrays, one array per column of data, and then pass those arrays (and a buddy variable) into functions
that perform various computations based on the arrays.
Your task in this project is to compute delivery sequences for Alistazon, a start-up company that is
planning to use drones to deliver parcels to customers. Each batch of deliveries is described by a file
that has one row of numbers for each package that has to be delivered. In the examples that follow we
suppose that the data file drones0.tsv contains these values in tab-separated format: