GradeCals is a simple application to manage and calculate a student's average grade for a given study course at a given institution.
The program focuses on the european bachelor/master system with ECTS credit points. You can select a study institution (e.g. some university) and a study course. Every possible course or module then is displayed in a table where you can enter your respective grades.
If you set a grade value to 0, it will be ignored so you have a current time average and support for optional courses.
The UI state (aka "Worksheet", containing selected institution, study course and entered grades) can be saved to a file and loaded again later. This way, you can manage your progress over time.
Goal:
This application was created mainly for two reasons:
- I wanted to try creating a GUI application with C++ / Qt
- I thought an excel sheet for calculating grades was tiresome
The course database is a simple XML file. The path to that file currently
is hard-coded to "./data.xml". This aspect should be changed some time.
The course database file has the following structure:
<GradeCalc>
<Institution id="0">
<name>Some university</name>
<city>Some city</city>
<description>Some description</description>
<StudyCourse id="0" name="Some study course name" title="B.Sc.">
<Course shortname="SC1" ects="10" semester="1">
Some Course I
</Course>
</StudyCourse>
</Institution>
... and so on.
Currently, only building on Linux (Ubuntu 12.10) has been tested.
To build your own copy of GradeCalc, you will need the following prerequisites:
- Qt5 must be installed (developed with Qt 5.0.2). You can get Qt5 from here or install it from your distributions software sources
- You will need the Boost program_options library, which should be available via your package manager. For Ubuntu, the package is called libboost-program-options1.49-dev (the version number might differ).
It is recommended to use Qt Creator to develop and build the program since you just have to load the project file GradeCalc.pro.
Copyright (C) 2013 Maurice Bleuel mandrakey@lavabit.com
GradeCalc is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the license, or (at your option) any later version.
GradeCalc is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTIBILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GradeCalc. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
