Programming-Principles-I

This was my first project at university. Below is the task I was given:

Part 1 - Student Version

• The program should allow students to predict their progression outcome at the end of each academic year.
• The program should prompt for the number of credits at pass, defer and fail and then display the appropriate progression outcome for an individual student.
• The program should let the user know if a credit input is the wrong data type. I.e., ‘Integers required’ is displayed.
• The program should let the user know if credits are not in the range 0, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100 and 120. I.e., ‘Range error’ is displayed.
• The program should let the user know if the total of the pass, defer and fail credits is not 120. I.e., ‘Total incorrect’ is displayed.

Table 1: Progression outcomes as defined by the University regulations.

Pass (including condoned pass)	Defer	Fail	Progression Outcome
120	0	0	Progress
100	20	0	Progress – module trailer
100	0	20	Progress – module trailer
80	40	0	Do not Progress – module retriever
80	20	20	Do not Progress – module retriever
80	0	40	Do not Progress – module retriever
60	60	0	Do not progress – module retriever
60	40	20	Do not progress – module retriever
60	20	40	Do not progress – module retriever
60	0	60	Do not progress – module retriever
40	80	0	Do not progress – module retriever
40	60	20	Do not progress – module retriever
40	40	40	Do not progress – module retriever
40	20	60	Do not progress – module retriever
40	0	80	Exclude
20	100	0	Do not progress – module retriever
20	80	20	Do not progress – module retriever
20	60	40	Do not progress – module retriever
20	40	60	Do not progress – module retriever
20	20	80	Exclude
20	0	100	Exclude
0	120	0	Do not progress – module retriever
0	100	20	Do not progress – module retriever
0	80	40	Do not progress – module retriever
0	60	60	Do not progress – module retriever
0	40	80	Exclude
0	20	100	Exclude
0	0	120	Exclude

Part 2 - Staff Version

• The program should prompt for credits at pass, defer and fail and display the appropriate progression for each individual student until the staff member user enters ‘q’ to quit.
• When ‘q’ is entered, the program should produce a ‘histogram’ where each star represents a student who achieved a progress outcome in the category range: progress, trailing, module retriever and exclude. See example below.
• The program should display the number of students for each progression category and the total number of outcomes processed.

This following horizontal histogram example shows the output distribution for 20 outcomes. However, your program should work with any number of outcomes generated.

Progress 10: **********
Trailing 5: *****
Retriever 3: ***
Excluded 2: **