1st Sit COURSEWORK Question Paper: Spring Semester 2024
Module Code: CS4051NT
Module Title: Fundamentals of Computing
Module Leader: Mr. Binaya Koirala / Mr. Hrishav Tandukar (Islington
College)
Coursework Type: Individual
Coursework Weight: This coursework accounts for 60% of your total module
grades.
Submission Date: Tuesday, 7 May 2024, before 01:00 PM
When Coursework is Week 20
given out:
Submission Submit the following to Itahari International College’s
Instructions: MST Portal before the due date:
● Soft copy of the report
● Zip file with source code of the program
Warning: London Metropolitan University and Itahari International
College takes Plagiarism seriously. Offenders will be dealt
with sternly.
© London Metropolitan University
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PLAGIARISM
You are reminded that there exist regulations concerning plagiarism. Extracts from these
regulations are printed overleaf. Please sign below to say that you have read and
understand these extracts:
Extracts from University Regulations on Cheating, Plagiarism and Collusion
Section 2.3: “The following broad types of offence can be identified and are
provided as indicative examples ….
(i) Cheating: including taking unauthorised material into an examination; consulting
unauthorised material outside the examination hall during the examination;
obtaining an unseen examination paper in advance of the examination; copying
from another examinee; using an unauthorised calculator during the examination
or storing unauthorised material in the memory of a programmable calculator which
is taken into the examination; copying coursework.
(ii) Falsifying data in experimental results.
(iii) Personation, where a substitute takes an examination or test on behalf of the
candidate. Both candidate and substitute may be guilty of an offence under these
Regulations.
(iv) Bribery or attempted bribery of a person thought to have some influence on the
candidate’s assessment.
(v) Collusion to present joint work as the work solely of one individual.
(vi) Plagiarism, where the work or ideas of another are presented as the candidate’s
own.
(vii) Other conduct calculated to secure an advantage on assessment.
(viii) Assisting in any of the above.
Some notes on what this means for students:
1. Copying another student's work is an offence, whether from a copy on paper or from
a computer file, and in whatever form the intellectual property being copied takes,
including text, mathematical notation, and computer programs.
2. Taking extracts from published sources without attribution is an offence. To quote
ideas, sometimes using extracts, is generally to be encouraged. Quoting ideas is
achieved by stating an author's argument and attributing it, perhaps by quoting,
immediately in the text, his or her name and year of publication, e.g. “e = mc2 (Einstein
1905)". A reference section at the end of your work should then list all such references
in alphabetical order of authors' surnames. (There are variations on this referencing
system which your tutors may prefer you to use.) If you wish to quote a paragraph or so
from published work then indent the quotation on both left and right margins, using an
italic font where practicable, and introduce the quotation with an attribution.
School of Computing, FLSC
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This module is assessed by coursework (60%). For the coursework, the students are
required to develop an application based on detailed guidance on given specifications.
Through the coursework students should be able to:
✔ Develop a Land Rental System
✔ Describe the program
✔ Test the program with some sample data to demonstrate its behaviour
✔ Write a report to present the work
● Students are required to submit weekly assignment along with related research
evidence
● The guideline for the Documentation/Development part is given below:
o Components to be included are: cover page, and table of contents, figures
and tables, footer.
o The report must have an Introduction section with definite goals and
objectives (approx. 400 words or more).
o The report must have a Discussion and Analysis section in which students
need to explain how the program was developed.
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1. Scenario
TechnoPropertyNepal is a private company that has a stock of different land on a
contract basis in different locations in Nepal. Thus, the company allows its clients to
rent the available land in various locations. The land stocks which are available are to
be charged on a monthly basis.
The TechnoPropertyNepal manages the availability of the land in a single text file. The
program must be able to read the text file and display the lands that are available or
not available for rent. Adding to that, the program should carry out the changes
according to the nature of the transaction (i.e., renting of the land and returning the
land to the company after the termination of the contract). With each transaction made,
a note or invoice must be generated. For instance, if the customer rents land for 6
months, then the status in the main text file must be modified to not available. Similarly,
if the customer returns the land after the termination of the rental contract, the Status
must be updated to available.
A sample format of the text file including the information about the Land Renting
System is as follows:
101, Kathmandu, North, 4, 50000, Available
102, Pokhara, East, 5, 60000, Not Available
103, Lalitpur, South, 10, 100000, Available
*1st column shows the kitta number of lands, 2nd column shows the name of the
city/district, 3rd column shows the direction of the land (Land Faced), 4th column shows
anna, 5th column shows the price in Nepalese Rupee, 6th column shows the availability
status of the land.
Note: You can use your own format and add other information too.
A note/invoice should be generated for each transaction. When land is rented, a
note/invoice should be generated (as a .txt file) which must contain the kitta number
of lands, name of the city/district, the direction of the land (Land Faced), area of land
(anna), name of the customer, date and time of rent, the duration of rent, and the total
amount. Also, if a customer decides to rent more than one land, then the amount
should be added up for all the rented lands.
When the land is returned back, a note/invoice should be generated again which
should include the name of the customer, kitta number of the land, name of the
city/district, the direction of the land (Land Faced), date and time of returning, the
duration of rent, area of land(anna), and the total amount. However, if a client is unable
to renew the contract on time and is late to return the land, in such case a fine should
be applied on a monthly basis which should be written to the file again.
* The format of the notes/invoices is up to you. But each file should have a unique
name. The customer has to take the available land as a whole. For example, if the
kitta number is 101, it includes an area comprising 4 annas of land. The customer
must rent the entire 4 annas of land; they cannot rent less than that.
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2. Algorithm
● An algorithm should be developed for the application where everything the
program does should be taken into account. The algorithm should be described in
steps, pseudocode, and flowcharts should also be included.
3. Data Structures
● The programming should be done using data structures and operations in Python
for input/output, character and string processing, and data storage.
● It can use any primitive or complex data structures which might be necessary for
holding the data (pairs, lists, strings, dictionaries, etc.)
● The choice of data structures must be specified in the report.
4. Program
● The program must work in a loop, displaying the available lands and waiting for
the administrator to enter details of the customers. The program should not close
unless the administrator decides to do so.
● The program must check the input data, displaying error messages whenever
unwanted data is entered, for example if some string value is entered where a
numerical value is expected.
● The program must be implemented in a modular way with separate functions for
the different operations such as input/output, reading files, generating
invoices/notes, etc.
5. Description
● The program must be described in terms of its structure and behavior.
● It can be presented using text and structural charts, flowcharts or other diagrams
as needed.
o The report must have a Testing section with evidence (through appropriate
screenshots) that has been carried out for the program.
o The report must include a Conclusion section where they need to present
their findings of the development and research (approx. 300 words).
● Demonstration of the project.
o If any individual student is not able to justify his/her project, then the project
will be kept under plagiarism.
NOTE: The technicality of the project will be judged during the demo and marked
accordingly.
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Marking Breakdown for Coursework
Criteria Total Marks
1. Introduction 5
2. Algorithm 5
3. Pseudocode 5
4. Flowchart 5
5. Data Structures 5
6. Program
a. Correctness 10
b. Implementation (modularity, use of 10
functions/classes)
c. Programming Style 10
d. Exception Handling 10
e. User interface/program usability 10
7. Testing 5
8. Conclusion 5
9. VIVA 10
10. Report Structure and Formatting 5
Total: 100
