Student Management System

Made by Ze Sheng

All Source Files:

Controller File

• SystemController.java

User group Files

• User.java
• Professor.java
• Admin.java
• Student.java

Course File

• Course.java

Helper File

• FileReader.java

Test Files

• AdminTest.java
• ProfessorTest.java
• StudentTest.java
• UserTest.java
• FileReaderTest.java

Progress

• ✓ - Finished
• O - In progess
• ? - Have problem
• blank - Not started

Section	State
Data Cleaning	✓
Database for Course	✓
Database for Profs	✓
Database for Students	✓
Database for Admins	✓
Login session	✓
Student functions	✓
Prof functions	✓
Admin functions	✓
Corner cases check	✓

Overview of work accomplished

• This is an Upenn student management system for all CIS and CIT courses. It will be served for 3 different user groups: Students, Professors and Admins.
• After running the SMS, a login prompt appears like:

• ---------------------------------------
  Welcome to Student Management System (SMS)
  ---------------------------------------
  1 -- Login as a student
  2 -- Login as a professor
  3 -- Login as an admin
  4 -- Quit the system
  Please enter your option, eg. 1
  

• After getting into the system, the functions are different for each group.

Student functions

•   ---------------------------------------
    Welcome StudentName1
    ---------------------------------------
    1 -- View all courses
    2 -- Add courses to the list
    3 -- View enrolled course
    4 -- Drop courses in your list
    5 -- View grades
    6 -- Return previous menus
    Or input q to quit
  

Professor functions

•   ---------------------------------------
    Welcome Clayton Greenberg
    ---------------------------------------
    1 -- View given courses
    2 -- View student list of the given course
    3 -- Return previous menus
    Or input q to quit
  

Administer functions

•   ---------------------------------------
    Welcome admin
    ---------------------------------------
    1 -- View all courses
    2 -- Add new courses
    3 -- Delete courses
    4 -- Add new professor
    5 -- Delete professor
    6 -- Add new student
    7 -- Delete student
    8 -- Return to previews menu
    Or input q to quit
  

Challenges

• There are mountains of corner cases in the user input, such as non-datetime input when searching for course days and invalid course number when creating a course. In this project, I tried my best to check all corner cases and it works well.
• When a professor retires, he/she needs to be deleted from the system. In this case, the course he/she would teach will be also deleted in the system. I fixed this problem and it works very well.