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Dan Moldover Enterprises
8836 Wandering Trail Dr.
Potomac, Md. 20854
The Electronic Gradesheet V. 2.0
Revised 2/12/90
This is a simple program designed to help you keep track of your grades
in school. It was designed for high school to keep track of grades for seven
periods. You can use it, however for any school that has less than seven
courses at a time. The program will work with up to seven classes, but can be
customized to hold as many classes as nessesary, up to 99. If you have any
ideas for other customazations, you can also drop me a note at the address
above, and I will see what I can do. There will be a $20 fee for
customization.
Enough about me, now to the program. You run from the command line:
GRADE [Name of student]
If you don't include the name on the command line, you will be prompted for
it, once the program starts up. The name should be no more than eight
characters long, because it will be used for the name of the main data file
"name.DAT".
MAIN SCREEN
This first screen will be a list of all your classes and the current grades
that you haev in them. At the bottom of the screen will be a computation of
your grade-point average for the current marking period. It handels weighted
and unweighted averages by the whether or not it is an honors class. It also
checks to see if you are taking the course credit / no credit. If you are, it
doesn't figure it into the average.
Your options from this screen are as follows:
1-7. Pick a period (class) to work with. This will get you to the
information screen for the particular course.
8. This will reset the program for the next marking period withen a
semester. As I said earlier, I designed it with High School in mind,
and we have two marking periods per semester. It only supports two
marking periods, for more, you will have to customize. What it does is
make a new filename for the grade data in each class, without reseting
the teacher and subject information.
9. This will reset all the information for the semester and erase all of
the data files. It then creates them again, as you enter the new
information. This is the same thing as starting the program over, with
the same name.
0. This exits the program.
INFORMATION SCREEN
This has on it a place for various peices of information about each class. It
is structured as follows:
Teacher Name : [name of teacher]
Class Name : [name of course]
Honors (Y/N) : [Y/y/N/n] ; honors or not for weighted grades
Credit/No Credit : [Y/y/N/n] ; Pass / Fail for computing GPA
Comment (29 max.) : [a comment about the class or teacher up to 29 characters]
Grading Scale
1. Standard ; ie. 90%=A, 80%=B, 70%=C, 65%=D, <65%=E
2. Four-Point ; ie. enter the grades out of multiples of four, the grade
will be calculated based on 3.6+ = A, 2.6+ = B, etc.
3. Custom Scale: ; You will be prompted for the scal after all processing,
each time you run the program.
If it is the first time you are running the program, or after a semester
reset, you will be forced to enter values for all the fields. You can leave
the Teacher name, subject, and Commets fields blank, but you must enter a
value for the grading scale, and whether or not you taking the class honors
and/or pass/fail.
The next time you run the program, you will be given the option of "E"diting
the screen, but will not be forced to, hit any other key to continue.
GRADE ENTRY
If you have already set up the program, you will be prompted if you wish to
E)dit or A)dd to the data. To Add data, press <ENTER> or "A", this will get
you to a propmt for an assignment name. You will enter that, then it will ask
for the points you got, then what you could have gotten. Press <ENTER> to
leave this screen.
When Editing the data, it will prompt you for the assignment number. They are
numbered on the left hand side of the screen. Type the number, then follow
the propmts. Pressing <ENTER> at any prompt will leave the data as it is.
OUTPUT
This program allows you to print out a copy of your grades and average, if you
like. If you don't have a printer printer attached, it will hang, when you
ask it to print. Otherwise, press <ENTER> or "N" to not print out the
grades. It will write to the screen what your current percentage is in the
class, and what your grade is. If you are using the four-point scale, it will
tell you what you got between 0-4 points ie. "That works out to a 2.75"
This is where, if you were using the custom scale, it would prompt you for
what the lowest A, B, C, and D should be. You return to the MAIN SCREEN after
you are finished.
I hope that you enjoy this program, or at least make use of it. I had a
lot of fun writing it, and hope that you find it as useful as I do. I also
hope that it helps your teachers have less headaches because of you asking for
grades all of the time. I would ask that if you find it useful, you drop me a
note at the above address. Also a $10 fee is required to become a licenesed
user. With the license, you will be entitled to the next release of this sent
to your home, at no extra charge. You will also recieve first crack at my
time for additional features. The registration only entitiles you to be sent
1 update. A subscription (any update that comes out in the future) will cost
$60. I cannot promise, however that there will be any more enhancements.
For the registration, please included the disk size that you would
like.(3.5" or 5.25"). An additional $1 is required for the 3.5" disk. Enjoy!
Send to:
Dan Moldover Enterprises
8836 Wandering Trail Dr.
Potomac, Md. 20854
Don't forget to put your address in the letter for update information!
A special thanks to my father for helping me through the difficult parts, also
to Jeff Kaplan for all the little things. Thanks again to Borland for their
wonderful Turbo Pascal, without them, this would just be a pile of code.
Above all, good luck in school, it's a tough world out there.
Dan