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TUTOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

eXcel Tuition Centre is one of the fast-growing tuition Centre in Malaysia that employed
tens of tutor to conduct tuition classes on all the school subjects in their various Tuition
Centers. All the tutors are paid by hourly rate ranged from RM40.00 – RM80.00, depends on
the subject they teach. Tutors can be rated by the students on their teaching performance with
a scale rating from 1-5, where 1 is “very poor performance” and 5 is “excellent
performance”. The tuition Centre needs a system to store information about their tutors
(identified by Tutor ID, Name, Date Joined, Date Terminated, Hourly Rate, Phone, Address,
Tuition Centre Code, Tuition Center Name, Subject Code, Subject Name, Rating [a single
digit integer number ranging from 1 to 5]). To maintain quality and consistency, one tutor is
allowed to teach on the subject in their specialized field only.

Tuition Centres are located in various locations and each of the Tuition Centre is managed by
an admin staff. All the tutors’ record are managed and maintained by the Tuition Centre Head
Quarter Human Resources Department. The current filing system of records is by
categorizing the tutors by their respective location. i.e. all tutors’ records are filed together in
the tuition centre location. In each location, the tutor’s records are filed alphabetically by the
tutor’s name. The main problem with this filing system is when searching for a record, the
record could not be easily found as it might have been misplaced in another Tuition Centre or
the record is not placed in the correct alphabet sequence. This problem proves challenging for
the Tuition Center admin staff when wanting to retrieve a tutor’s record quickly. When a tutor
terminated his tutoring service, the record for that tutor will be destroyed 6 months after the
termination.

At the end of each week, a report is generated to list all tutors of the Tuition Center to keep
track of the available vacancy for new tutors.

The admin manager of the tuition center has decided that it is time to computerize the records
of Tutors serving in the Tuition Center due to the problems with the manual filling system.
Since you have some knowledge in developing a computerized system, the Tuition Center
HR Manager has approaches you to assist them in developing the system.

This project requires you to develop C++ program for the Tutors Management System
which should contains features stated below:

i. Add a Tutor Record

ii. Display All Records
iii. Search a Tutor by Tutor ID
iv. Search Tutors by overall performance (Rating)
v. Sort and display by Tutors ID in ascending order
vi. Sort and display by Tutors Hourly Pay Rate in ascending order
vii. Sort and display by Tutors Overall Performance in ascending order
viii. Modify a Tutor Record
ix. Delete a Tutor Record
x. Exit

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a) Your are required to develop the system using TWO approaches:

i. Array of Structure
ii. Linked List

b) The list of TUTORS should contain the following information:

Tutor ID, Name, Data Joined, Date Terminated, Hourly Pay Rate, Phone, Address,
Tuition Center Code, Tuition Center Name, Subject Code, Subject Name and Rating.

c) You must pre-define some tutors listing in the system. Besides, your “Add a Tutor
Record” function in your menu will allow the user to enter new Tutor.

d) Your program should also allow the user to search for a particular type of Tutor. For
eg: a search for Tutor in “Bukit Jalil” should only display listings of tutors serving
Bukit Jalil’s Tuition Center. Note that you must apply some suitable searching
algorithms in this section.

e) When displaying the tutor, the user must be able to move back and forth between the
lists of tutor. Listing of tutors must be sorted as mentioned above. Note that you must
apply some suitable sorting algorithms.

f) The HR Manager should be able to delete or modify the record of a tutor. However,
the record of a Tutor can be deleted 6 months after leaving the Tuition Center.
Note that only the Tutor phone and address attributes may be modified.

g) Include all validations required for the system and use good programming practices
(eg. indentation, meaningful identifier names, comments, and etc.).

h) You must compare the TWO approaches (Array of Structure and Linked List) in their
strength and weaknesses in implementation the system.

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Assignment Requirements
This is a group assignment, which comprises of THREE (3) members.

You are required to submit a softcopy of assignment report and source code. The report
should contain:

- Detailed explanation of the structure data structures created, with proper justification
on your decisions (include source code defining structure, data structure, data
members and etc).
- Brief explanation about the algorithms used to implement the functionalities stated
above (include code snippets of important parts of implementation).
- Source code of the main function, with screenshots showing program’s input and
output interactions.

- Workload matrix or contribution of each team member in the assignment must be

include in the documentation, and signoff by each of the team member. Distribution
of work across components such as design, implementation, documentation and
presentation ideally equal between members, otherwise, marks will be reflected based
on the contribution.

You have to present your assignment solution and answers to the lecturer during a Q&A
session that will be conducted after the hand-in date.

If you use some code which has been taken or adapted from another source (book, magazine,
internet, forum, etc.) then this must be cited and referenced using Harvard Referencing
Style within your source code, and this must be mentioned explicitly in the report. Failure to
reference code properly will be treated as plagiarism. Automated tools for checking code
similarities among submissions will be used, and all detected cases will be treated as
cheating.
Assessment marks are divided as follows:
Documentation &
Design Implementation Presentation
Marks
10 30 10

What You Need to Hand In?

1. You are required to hand in the individual assignment report on or before the due date
mentioned on the cover sheet of the assignment in the APU Learning Management
System (Webspace).

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2. The softcopy of the report, in addition to the C++ files of the programs. The
organization of files and folders must adhere to the following instructions
precisely:

• A folder named “StudentFirstName-StudentID-Asmnt” should contain the

report file (Microsoft Word), and the C++ (*.cpp / *.h) files ONLY. All
additional project files (especially if you use Visual Studio) should be removed.

• Make sure to DELETE all non-source-code files, including executables (*.exe).

3. You should present an executable solution during Q&A session to demonstrate

program execution, the working of the data structure, your understanding of the code,
and ability to modify / fix it.

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Marking Criteria:
The course work submitted will be evaluated according to the following performance criteria:

Distinction (75% and above)

- Program compiles and executes perfectly

- At least 90% of the required functionalities are correctly implemented
- Efficient data structures and\or algorithms are used in the implementation
- Documented good comparative analysis carried out in both design and
implementation (4 points).
- Clear coding style and structure, and code is properly commented
- Functionalities are fully tested/validated in program execution
- Excellent document layout / flow with no missing components of the documentation

Credit (65% – 74%)

- Program compiles and executes

- Between 70% and 90% of the required functionalities are correctly implemented
- Implementation uses a data structure(s) or algorithm(s) that is not most efficient
- Documented sufficient comparative analysis carried out in both design and
implementation (3 points).
- Clear coding style, and code is properly commented
- Functionalities are not fully tested/validated in program execution
- Good document layout/flow with no missing components in the documentation.

Pass (50% - 64%)

- Program compiles perfectly and executes

- Between 50% and 70% of the required functionalities are correctly implemented
- Implementation uses inefficient data structures or algorithms
- Documented the comparative analysis carried out in both design and implementation
(1-2 points).
- Unclear coding style, or code is not properly commented
- Functionalities are not full tested/validated in program execution, or produce errors in
some cases
- Document missing minor components with average layout / flow.

Marginal Fail (40% - 49%)

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- Program does not compile or run, but coding logic is almost correct
- Between 30% and 50% of the required functionalities are correctly implemented
- Implementation uses inefficient data structures or algorithms
- Unclear coding style, and no comments provided
- Functionalities are not tested/validated in program execution
- Incomplete documentation with missing major component.

Fail (below 40%)

- Program is not given

- Program does not compile or run
- Less than 30% of the required functionalities are implemented
- Implementation uses very inefficient data structures or algorithms
- No proper code structure and no comments provided
- Documentation merely contains the cover page and printout of the source code.

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