School Report Card Management System

Python built Software that generates a Report Card for a student in either pdf or docx or both formats.

Technologies Used:

The project is created using :

• Python 3.9.1
• tkinter (for GUI Interface)

Getting Started

Clone the repo on local machine:

$ git clone https://github.com/BasuDevTyagi10/SchoolReportCardGenerator.git
$ cd "SchoolReportCardGenerator"

Create a virtual environment (for better control (version control) over the project)

It is better to use Anaconda Navigator (Anaconda Documentation - Installation) for handling such (and further mentioned) tasks of creating virtual environments, installing packages, IDEs, Applications, etc.

For performing the mentioned operations manually (without Anaconda) :

Install virtualenv module to create isolated virtual environments.

$ pip install virtualenv

To create a Virtual Environment for Python 2.x do the following

$ virtualenv myenv

For a Python 3 virtual environment type –

$ python3 -m venv myenv

To activate the virtual environment -
On Windows, run:

$ myenv\Scripts\activate.bat

Installing required packages

The required packages for this project are listed below to run the python scripts:
tkinter, pandas, docx-mailmerge, docx2pdf and sqlite3

Install the above mentioned packages in your virtual environment using Anaconda, and without it by:
run the below command after you're in your virtual environment

(myenv)$ pip install tkinter docx-mailmerge docx2pdf sqlite3

Run the script:

(make sure youre in the home directory) run the following command -

(myenv)$ python main.py

Project Overview

MAIN SCRIPT: main.py
SCRIPTS FOR CODE DISTRIBUTION: res.py (for common resources), dashboard.py (for dashboard UI and functionality), login.py (for login UI and functionality), frontend.py (for main UI), backend.py (for main UI's backend to add, edit, delete and update data) and reportcard.py (for reportcard generation in pdf and docx format).
DATABASE FILE: database.db
ADDITIONAL FILES:
ReportCard Template - template.docx
Image Resources - in /res directory

Login Credentials and Passwords:
Username: master
Password: admin
Password for editing template.docx: masteruser

Documentations Refered:

The following documentations were refered to create this project :

• Python 3.8.8
• Tkinter

Authors

• Basudev Tyagi - Initial work - BasuDevTyagi10