Introduction to Computer Science and Programming 1 – CSCI120UNIV9

Course Project
Due: Final Exam day
Group/Individual Project
Grade: 8-20% of the Final Grade [To-Be-Determined]

Requirements
- This is a group/individual assignment. Do it in a group of 2 or individually.
- There is a bonus part in the project too which gives you additional 3% in you do it
completely
- Please use meaningful name for your variables and functions
- Try to reuse your solutions as much as possible.
- A group more than 2 people is not accepted!

Project Starter
- I have prepared a project starter for you and many of the classes you need have been
already defined for you.
- Please download the project starter from the portal and read the code to make yourself
familiar with the code.
- Then read the project description and then read the code in the project starter again.

Project Description
In this project you are going to design an object-oriented model for an educational portal using
Python. Through this portal the students can register as a new user (student) and also login to the
portal through a registration and login view respectively and perform some actions that are
available to them.

Define and write a Python class for each of the following entities (Feel free to add more classes
if needed):
o Account
o Student
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 o StudentProfile
o Transcript
o GeneralTranscript (child of the Transcript)
o CurrentSemesterTranscript (child of Transcript)
o StudentProfile
o TakenCourse
o CollegeCourse
o Manager
o Semester
o Menu
o Portal
o PortalManager

• Draw the object diagram for each of the above entities.

• You need to define properties (instance or static properties) and behaviors (methods) for
the above classes. Before you decide what properties or methods to consider for each
object, read the rest of this problem and figure out what states and behaviors you can
define for each of the classes.

The class Account: Each student is going to have one account. At the beginning the student
should register with a username and a password to create an account.
• The username must be at least 6 characters long.
• The password must be at least 6 characters and at least one digit character in it.

The class Student: Each student is defined as following:

• A number, which shows the admission year of the student.
• A general transcript of type GeneralTranscript, which will show all the courses the
student has taken so far since s/he has been in the school.
• A semester transcript of type CurrentSemesterTranscript which will show all the courses
the student is taking in the current semester.
• A student’s profile from type StudentProfile which contains some personal information
about the student

The class StudentProfile: Once a new student registers, a profile is created for the student. The
profile contains the following information:

o StudentID
o Firstname
o Lastname
o Gender
o Address
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 o Country of Origin
o Age

The class GeneralTranscript: The general transcript shows all courses the student has taken.
For each course, the name of the course, the code of the course, the grade the student had
received in the course and number of units and the number of semester in which the course is
taken is shown. The General Transcript include the courses the student has taken in the current
semester.

The class CurrentSemesterTranscript: Similar to General Transcript but only contains the
courses the student has taken in the current semester.

The class CollegeCourse: Each CollegeCourse, consists of the following information:

• Course’s name
• Course’s code
• Course’s number of units. Each course has a unit which means the weight of the course in
the GPA.

The class TakenCourse: Each course consists of the following information:

• CollegeCourse (which is the name, code and unit)
• Student’s grade: if the course is not taken yet, the default value is -1.
• The number of the semester the course is taken in. If the course is not taken yet, this
value is 0.

Note: You can suppose each school year is 2 semester. For instance, Semester 1 means, the year
one and semester one. Semester 2 means year 1 and semester 2. Semester 3 means, year 2 and
semester 1 and Semester 4 means, year 2 and semester 2 and so on.

The class Semester has the following properties:

• Year number: Shows the year number.
• Semester number: Shows the semester number in the year (could be 1 or 2)
• isCurrentSemester: If True, that means it is the current semester otherwise it is False.

The class Manager: There is one instance from the class Manager which represents the
manager of the college. The Manager class, has the following properties:

• firstName
• lastName
• Title

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The class Portal. There is one instance of the class Portal. The class portal has the following
properties:
• List of all students
• List of all courses

The class Menu. The class Menu is used to create the main Menu of the application. Please see
the menu below. The Menu class does not have any instance property but it is used to show the
menu to the user and receives the menu selection from the user (what option the user is selected)

Note1: You are not limited only to above classes. If needed, feel free to create your own classes
too. But your application should at least include the above classes.

Note2: Your application does not need to keep any offline data (it does not need to write to the
file and read from the file).

Note3: Try to use all principles of Object-Oriented Design in this project:

• Encapsulation
• Polymorphism
• Inheritance
• API

The Flow of the application: Here you are going to create a text-based application. No
graphical UI is needed for this project.

The application contains several views and a main menu. (all text-based) as following:

Login View: Once you run the program, the following view is shown to the user:
************************************************************
Please enter your account to login:
************************************************************
Username:
Password:

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Not registered yet? Type “Register” and press enter to start the registration process!

If the username and password were correct then the program prints the following message and
wait until the user press any key and then prints the main menu as following. If the username or
password was wrong then the program informs the user using the following error message and
asks the user to try again.

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If username and password were correct:
************************************************************
Welcome to Columbia College!
************************************************************

If the username or password was wrong:

************************************************************
Your account does not exist. Please try again!
************************************************************

If the user enters “Register” and press enter key, then the registration process is shown to the
user as following. As a result of registration, a new account and a profile is generated for the
student and the student should be able to login, next time without having to register again. Upon
registration, you should create a random 8 digit number as the studentID.

************************************************************
Welcome to Columbia College: Please Register
************************************************************
Please enter your first name:
Please enter your last name:
Please enter your gender [M/F/O]:
Please enter your country of origin:
Please enter the year of admission:

Please enter your age:

Please enter a username [At least 6 characters]:

Please enter a password [At least 6 characters with at least one digit]:

Thanks, your account and profile has been created successfully. Welcome Aboard [The
name of the student]

Once the user successfully entered his/her username and password the program shows the above
welcome message and then wait for the user to enter any key and then prints the following main
menu:

************************************************************
Select from the options:
************************************************************
—-[1] Print my enrolment certificate
—-[2] Print my courses
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—-[3] Print my transcript
—-[4] Print my GPA
—-[5] Print my ranking among all students in the college
—-[6] List all available courses
—-[7] List all students
—-[8] Show My Profile
-—[9] Logout
-—[10] Exit
—-[11] Bonus
************************************************************
Enter the number corresponding to each item to proceed:

If the student enters 10, the application will terminate otherwise it will perform the
corresponding action and will print the main menu again as long as the student has not entered
10 (which is Exit).

The user enters a number between 1 and 9 every time to perform the corresponding functionality.

• Print my enrolment certificate: If the user entered ‘1’, the program prints the following
information from the user in the following format. And then prints the main menu again.

Dear Sir/Madam,

This is to certify that Mr. Peter Brown with student id 7813007 is a student at semester 1 at
Columbia. He was admitted to our college in 2011 and has taken 1 course(s) so far. Currently he
resides at 850 West Vancouver, Vancouver.

If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

Thanks,
[Manager: Peter Jackson ]

• Print my courses: If the user entered ‘2’, the program prints all the courses the student has
taken in the following format. And then prints the above main menu again.

Hi Mr. Peter Brown,

You have taken the following courses so far:
1) CSCI101: Python
2) CSCI202: Project Management
3) CSCI301: Java Programming
4) CSCI 401: Android Programming [Current semester]

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 • Print my transcript: If the user entered ‘3’, then the program prints the transcript of the
user in the following format and then prints the above menu.

Hi Mr. Peter Brown,

Here is your general transcript:

1) CSCI101: Python: 80
2) CSCI202: Project Management: 45
3) CSCI301: Java Programming: 64
4) CSCI401: Android Programming: 70 [Current semester]
YOUR GPA IS: 64.75

Here is your current semester transcript:

1) CSCI401: Android Programming: 70 [Current semester]
YOUR Current Semester GPA IS: 70

Note: Please notice to calculate the GPA you need to take into account the number of units of a
course. For instance if you got 80 in a course which is 4 units and you got 70 in a course which 3
units, then your GPA is calculated using the following formula:

GPA = (80*4 + 70*3 ) / (3+4) = 75.7

• Print my GPA: If the user entered ‘4’, then the program prints the GPA of the student in
the following format and then prints the above main menu.

Hi Mr. Peter Brown,

Your overall GPA is 64.75
Your current semester’s GPA is 70

• Print my ranking among all students in the college: If the user enters ‘5’, the program will
find the rank of the student based on his/her gpa and print it and then print the above
main menu.

Hi Mr. Peter Brown,

Your overall GPA is 64.75 and therefore your rank is 3.

• List all available courses: If the user entered ‘6’, the program will print the list of all
available courses in the college in the following format and then print the menu.
The following courses are offered in Columbia College:
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 1) CSCI101: Python: 3 units [Not taken]
2) CSCI102: Object-Oriented Programming: 2 units [Not taken]
3) CSCI201: Problem Solving: 1 units [Not taken]
4) CSCI202: Project Management: 3 units [Not taken]
5) CSCI301: Java Programming: 3 units [Taken at semester 1]
6) CSCI302: Web Development: 2 units [Taken at semester 2]
7) CSCI401: Android Programming: 2 units [Taken at semester 4]
2) CSCI402: iOS Applications: 3 units [Taken at semester 3]

• List all students in the college: If the user enters ‘7’, the program will print the list of all
students in the college in the following format and then print the menu.
There are 4 students in Columbia College as following:
1) Peter Brown: 7813007
2) Joseph Rod: 812345
3) Cristina Li: 8012333
4) Adams Wang: 7812999

• Show My Profile: If the user entered ‘8’, the program will print the profile of the student
in the following format:
Name: Mr. Peter Brown
StudentID: 7813007
Gender: Male
Address: Vancouver
Country of Origin: CANADA
Age: 21
Year of Admission: 2016
Overall GPA: 64.75
Courses Taken So far: CSCI101: Python, CSCI202: Project Management, CSCI301: Java
Programming , CSCI401: Android Programming [Current semester]

• Logout: If the user entered ‘9’, the program will print the login menu and let the user
login again with the same or different account.
• Exit: If the user entered ‘10’, the program terminates.
• Bonus: If the user enters the application shows another menu as following:
• **Welcome to the extra features of the application**
• —-[1] Print the list of all students based on their GPA (Ascendingly)
• —-[2] Print the list of names of all students alphabetically
• —-[3] Print the list of all Male students
• —-[4] Print the list of all Female students
• —-[5] List of top (highest GPA) male and female students
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 • —-[6] Back to the previous menu

Testing the Application

This is the testing scenario:
Imagine there are 5 students on the portal:

Student StudentID Firstname Lastname Gender Address Country Age Admission

of Origin Year
student1 8012321 Peter Sand M Vancouver Irland 21 2019
student2 8014525 Sheila Rogers F Surrey India 19 2018
student3 8011111 Edward Richards M Burnaby China 20 2019
student4 8033344 Souzan Robson F Surrey India 20 2019
student5 8012322 Jeff Cooper M Vancouver England 21 2018

And there are the following courses in the college

Course Code Course name Number of course unit

CSCI101 Python 3
CSCI102 Object-Oriented Programming 2
CSCI201 Problem Solving 1
CSCI202 Project Management 3
CSCI301 Java Programming 3
CSCI302 Web Development 2
CSCI401 Android Programming 2
CSCI402 iOS Applications 3

Imagine each student has taken some courses and received some marks. The table below show what
course the student has taken and the grades.

Semester the
Student Course Grade
course is taken
student1
Python 2019-term1 80
Object-Oriented
2019-term2 76
Programming
Problem Solving 2020-term1 (Current) 67
Project Management 2019-term1 82
Java Programming 2019-term2 73
student2
Python 2018-term1 65
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 Object-Oriented
2018-term2 67
Programming
Problem Solving 2018-term2 85
Project Management 2019-term1 56
Java Programming 2019-term1 75
Web Development 2019-term2 76
Android Programming 2019-term2 80
iOS Applications 2020-term1 (current) 74
student3
Problem Solving 2019-term1 78
Project Management 2019-term1 87
No Course 2019-term2 56
Web Development 2020-term1 (current) 77
student4
Project Management 2019-term1 89
Java Programming 2019-term1 87
Web Development 2019-term2 71
Android Programming 2019-term2 69
iOS Applications 2020-term1 (current) 75

student5 Web Development 2018-term1 78

Android Programming 2018-term2 56
iOS Applications 2018-term2 89
Project Management 2019-term1 66
Java Programming 2019-term1 77
Object-Oriented
2019-term2 87
Programming
Problem Solving 2019-term2 67
No Course 2020-term1 (current) 78

Each student has a username and password. Imagine the username and password of the
above students is as following

Student username password

student1 “Student1” “111111”
student2 “Student2” “222222”
student3 “Student3” “333333”
student4 “Student4” “444444”
student5 “Student5” “555555”

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 Good Luck J

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