Akhenaton

Hullo there,
I would like to create an application for my school which will help calculate the marks of the students of each class, taking into account his/her coefficient per subject. Finally I would like to calculate the class average following the marks herein.
Is it possible to do this ? And if so can anyone help me out?
Thanks
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mitakeet

Of couse it is possible. Why are you posting this in "Feedback and Suggestions"?

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Very possible... and yes, you have the wrong section. You will need to post this in the section that represents the language in which you are coding in. Also, you would probably receive a better response if you show a bit of effort and state specific problems you are encountering.

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Akhenaton

hey do you think we can do this together??

Berto

Do you have any experiance in programming?

How long do you have to complete the project?

and if you come here with questions most people will try to help you out, but also most people work so i doubt you will find someone to help you code it.

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Pizentios

ummm, we're not a homework service.

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Lay out for yourself the data you have available. Lay out for yourself the data you wish to derive and present. Determine the formulae or algorithm(s) you will need to transform the one to the other. Define at a high level the operations you will need to perform. An example might be:

1. Get the input data
2. Transform the data
3. Present the results

Look at each of those steps individually, breaking them into smaller tasks. When you are finished, the smallest tasks should be very literal and detailed steps used in accomplishing the task. That would be called pseudocode.

Pick a language. Convert the pseudocode into proper syntax for that language. If you work top-down, you will find that you need things you haven't yet written. Either break into bottom-up mode and write the necessary utility procedures, or, if you can verify the validity of your design at the current level by using stubs, just write a stub. A stub is a substitute: an example would be a message, "Print student record", as opposed to the full-blown procedure for printing a student record. One has to evaluate and choose as one goes along.

When you get into trouble, post in the appropriate forum. If you get into trouble before you choose a language, post back here. IF YOU POST, YOU SHOULD SHOW EFFORT AND WORK. I, for one, never do homework out of hand. If the poster has broken a real sweat, produced things, and fallen into an elephant trap, I'm always more than glad to contribute. I suspect the same is true of others. Tip: design before you code. Know WHAT you're doing, even if you don't know HOW to do it, yet.

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Akhenaton

I do not have much experience in Programming, and Ihavea bout two weeks to do this before I turn all the marks in, but this is what I have done so far. I've created a series of tables, namely Classes, coefficients, students, subjects, teachers, terms, tests, and years. In these tables I'll fill in the data. I'm going to try to create relations between them. Now I'm very sure u need pseudocode, but where???
Thanks

DaWei

Everywhere you need to express the process. Get a grip. You're writing a list of instructions for an assistant to follow in doing the job for you. You can't do that, of course, until YOU know how to do the job.

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Berto

or even write down the processes of what you have to do for example

View Marks Of student x:

(basic pseudocode)

Get ID of student
Get class information for student x from database
Display Information

For each process repeat the same as above and you have a basic framework for the program from there it should make it a lot easier to complete.

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