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Grade Management System

This project is designed to manage student grades. With various functionalities, a user can read files with grade data, add new items, search for items, save grade items to a file, display items, and view a summary of grade items.

Description

The primary class in this project is GradeItem. This class contains the necessary items about a student, especially their grades, and allows modification of this data.

The project also contains various utility functions for file management, display, and data manipulation.

Files & Class Descriptions

GradeItem

• Header: GradeItem.hpp
• Description: This class contains every item we need about the student, including their grades, which can be accessed and modified.
• Author: Barrak Mandani
• Version: 3/11/2022

Other Utility Functions

• readFile: To read grade items from a file.
• saveFile: To save grade items into a different file.
• display: To visually display the grade items on the screen.
• addItem: To add a new grade item.
• searchItem: To search for a specific grade item based on date or description.
• gradeSummary: To display a summary of grade items.

Usage

Upon running the main function, the user will be presented with a menu. Depending on the user's choice, the respective utility function will be executed.

• Edit these files with a text editor or an IDE of your choice. Save the changes.

Build the Program

• Open a terminal or command prompt.
• Navigate to the directory where your source files and the makefile are located.
• Simply type make and press Enter. This command will invoke the makefile to compile and link the code files.
• The makefile will produce an executable named cp (as specified by the TARGET variable).

Run the Program

• In the same terminal or command prompt, type ./cp and press Enter to run the program.

Clean the Build**:

• If you want to clean up the intermediate files (*.o) and the executable, type make clean in the terminal or command prompt. This will remove all the object files and the executable, ensuring a fresh build the next time you run make.