Gain knowledge and understanding of OOP concepts and principles and be able to evaluate and interpret within the context

Assignment Brief

Coursework 1

Requirements

You have recently began a position at Mechachrome software ltd as a junior programmer and have joined a small development team to deliver a Student registration system for a small local college. Bright-Future is a college that currently runs three courses, Computing, Accounting and Business Studies to Home and foreign students. The fees for each course is £3000 for home students and £6000 for foreign students. Each course is 1 year in duration. The college would like the new system to register students onto a course. At times some students may wish to change courses within the college so a feature to enable this should be provided in the final solution. When registering the students, students have the option to pay the full fees upfront or at a minimal pay 1/3 of the fees. The opening main menu could look something like this:

The user interface will be menu driven prompting the user to select a choice, quantity and subsequently to pay by inserting the money. The menu could look something like:

Depending on the option selected from the main menu, sub menus should branch out offering the user different options e.g. if option 1 from the main menu is selected, a sub menu should appear offering the user the choice select a quantity.

Data capture

The application should allow staff to enter the following information on a Student upon enrolling:

• First name and Surname.
• Date of birth.
• Address including post code.
• Phone number and email.

Student ID number should be automatically generate

What the system should be able to do:

• Enroll Students.

• Switch students from one course to another on request.

• Remove students from a course.

• View a student’s profile which should show the following:

  • Course they are studying

  • First name and surname

  • Date of birth

  • Address and postcode

  • Student ID

  • Whether they are home or foreign students.

  • Fees paid to date.

  • List all the students on a course showing their first names, surname and emails.

On-screen reporting

Appropriate menus and submenus based on the option selected.

A management reporting feature that allows management to view the most popular and least popular courses.

Total money fees paid to date.

Sample Answer

Student Registration System – Bright-Future College

Introduction

Bright-Future College requires a Student Registration System to manage enrolments, course changes, and fee payments. The college offers three courses, Computing, Accounting, and Business Studies, with different fees for home (£3000) and foreign (£6000) students. The system must capture student details, support course transfers, and provide management reporting on student numbers and fee collection.

This solution employs Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles, including encapsulation, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstraction, to create a maintainable, reusable, and scalable system.

System Design

Classes and Responsibilities

The system consists of the following main classes:

Student Class

Represents an individual student, storing personal details and payment information.

Attributes:

• first_name

• surname

• dob (Date of Birth)

• address

• postcode

• phone

• email

• student_id (auto-generated)

• course

• student_type (‘home’ or ‘foreign’)

• fees_paid

Methods:

• enroll(course) – assign a student to a course

• switch_course(new_course) – change the student’s course

• make_payment(amount) – record a fee payment

• view_profile() – return the student’s details

Course Class

Represents a college course and tracks enrolled students.

Attributes:

• course_name

• course_fee_home

• course_fee_foreign

• students (list of Student objects)

Methods:

• add_student(student) – enroll a student

• remove_student(student_id) – remove a student

• list_students() – list all students with basic info

• total_fees_paid() – calculate total fees collected

College Class

Manages multiple courses and system operations.

Attributes:

• courses (dictionary of Course objects keyed by course name)

Methods:

• enroll_student(student_details, course_name) – create and add a new student

• switch_student(student_id, new_course_name)

• remove_student(student_id)

• view_student_profile(student_id)

• popular_courses() – return most and least popular courses

• total_collected_fees()

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