ENSF-607 Assignment 1

An assignment on developing a command line Course Registration System.

Folder Structure

• Assignment_1.pdf: assignment document
• src: source code
• lib: setup data and jar of library used
• screenshots: screenshots of the program
• Run.sh: executable for unix based OS
• Run.cmd: executable for Windows

Program design and flow

• As soon as the program is launched, it reads the resource files to create course catalog, and registers all the dummy students

• You as a student would enter your details to enter the system

• Before registering a course (program menu option number 2), the pre-requisites of the course are checked. You must be registered for the pre-requisite courses to register for any course.

• After registration, a warning is showed only if there are less than 8 students registered in the selected offering

• All the course details, offering details, and occupancy details can be printed using program menu option number 4.

• Refer to the screenshots to get an idea of the working of the program

Details of resource files

• Data required for Course Catalog is stored in lib/course_catalog.txt. Format of data is:

  <course name>, <comma separated list of pre-requisite courses>
  

• Data required for Course Offering is stored in lib/course_offerings.txt. Format of data is:

  <course name>, <offering section number>, <offering maximum capacity>
  

• Dummy students and their registration informations is stored in lib/dummy_students.txt. Format of data is:

  <student name>, <student ID number>, <comma separated list of registered offering in the format <courseName-courseNumber-offeringSection>>
  

How to build and run

1. JDK version 1.7 or above is required to build and run this program.

2. Clone the repository on your machine, or download the zip file

3. Run the Run.sh or Run.cmd file to run the program

4. Then follow the onscreen instructions

Screenshots

Student entering his/her details

Program menu options

Menu option 1: no search results

Menu option 1: search produced some results

Menu option 2: couldn't register as all registrations are full in this offering

Menu option 2: couldn't register as pre-requisites are not met

Menu option 2: successfully registered

Menu option 2: successfully registered but a warning is issued

Menu option 2: cannot register for more than 6 courses

Menu option 3: cannot de-register as registered courses has depedency

Menu option 3: successfully de-registered

Menu option 4: view the entire course catalog

Menu option 5: show all the registered courses for the current student

Menu option 6: exit the program