[RESOLVED] Student Result Software

[Nightwalker83]

Hi,

I am currently deciding whether it is worth creating software that could be used by teachers to keep track of students and their grades, etc. I don't know if software like this already exists or not?

Edit:

Googling "Student result software" I found Grade Expert.

Nightwalker

[Nightwalker83]

Damn! I can't decide what I want to create. Any ideas?

[baja_yu]

Doing this for yourself? Working alone? Do you plan to sell it or will it be freeware?

[Nightwalker83]

Well, I was thinking of doing it for myself! Also, since my mum is a teacher I thought that would be a good place to start. Freeware for now since my skills aren't advanced enough but as I add more features to the program that might change.

[dilettante]

Tons of these things out there http://www.gradekeeper.com/ and so on. It is getting tougher each day to be original or even better with so much cheap labor available for adding software refinements year by year.

[Nightwalker83]

Yeah, who knew there are so many sheep around! I guess I will go back to the drawing board.

[Siddharth Rout]

Tip: If you post a bid in freelancer.com, trust me there are many people who will do it for you for $30

[Nightwalker83]

Tip: If you post a bid in freelancer.com, trust me there are many people who will do it for you for $30

Yeah, but I'm trying to decide what I should create just to practice make programming skills.

[NeedSomeAnswers]

Dont be deterred by the fact that someone else may have already developed something similar to what you want to do.

Firstly, just because something has been developed doesn't mean it's any good, you may be able to do it better. (just think about web browsers should Google of Mozilla not have bothered because IE had already been made)

Secondly, that fact the someone has already developed an application in that area and are selling it means there is likely to be a market for you app.

[Nightwalker83]

That is a good point! Maybe I will do something like that.

[minitech]

A great feature would be to find a way to automatically fill in everything, or at least most things. My teacher presses Tab more than anything else. And the program has an awful UI.

[akhileshbc]

Try setting up in a all in one remote(web) server. In that way, anyone can access the data from anywhere via internet. Useful for students and parents too

[Nightwalker83]

Try setting up in a all in one remote(web) server. In that way, anyone can access the data from anywhere via internet. Useful for students and parents too

If I do that would I have to use WCF? I have not learnt it as of yet! Also, would I be able to create the program in C#?

[akhileshbc]

If I do that would I have to use WCF? I have not learnt it as of yet! Also, would I be able to create the program in C#?

For that web programming, you can consider ASP.Net (VB/C#). Then setup a website such that the teacher can enter the status of students through a separate page and the students/parents can view details (stored in db) through another page.

If you create it as a website, then it will have an advantage that the students/parents/teachers can access the data from anywhere.
Also, you can include a facility to send automatic email/SMS to the subscribers of your site.

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[Nightwalker83]

For that web programming, you can consider ASP.Net (VB/C#).

I thought asp.net was its own language, why the VB /C# in the brackets?

[akhileshbc]

ASP.NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites, web applications and web services. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ASP.NET is built on the Common Language Runtime (CLR), allowing programmers to write ASP.NET code using any supported .NET language. The ASP.NET SOAP extension framework allows ASP.NET components to process SOAP messages.

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[Nightwalker83]

That is useful! Thanks.

[Nightwalker83]

I think I might design/code the program using c# first then transform it into an asp.net application.