CS4051NP Fundamentals of Computing Spring24(1st sit) – CW1 QP (Spring)

1st Sit COURSEWORK Question Paper:

Spring Semester 2025

Module Code:	CS4051NP
Module Title:	Fundamentals of Computing
Module Leader:	Mr. Sandip Dhakal

Coursework Type:	Individual
Coursework Weight:	This coursework accounts for 70% of your total module grades.
Submission Date:	First Milestone: Sunday, 20 April 2025 Second Milestone: Sunday, 4 May 2025 Final Submission: Wednesday, 14 May 2025
When Coursework is given out:	Week 6
Submission Instructions:	Submit the following to Informatics College MST Portal before 01:00 PM on the due date: Soft copy of the report (.pdf format) Zip file with source code of the program
Warning:	London Metropolitan University and Informatics College Pokhara takes Plagiarism seriously. Offenders will be dealt with sternly.

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PLAGIARISM

You are reminded that there exist regulations concerning plagiarism. Extracts from these regulations are printed overleaf. Please sign below to say that you have read and understand these extracts:

Extracts from University Regulations on Cheating, Plagiarism and Collusion

Section 2.3: “The following broad types of offence can be identified and are provided as indicative examples ….

1. Cheating: including taking unauthorised material into an examination; consulting unauthorised material outside the examination hall during the examination; obtaining an unseen examination paper in advance of the examination; copying from another examinee; using an unauthorised calculator during the examination or storing unauthorised material in the memory of a programmable calculator which is taken into the examination; copying coursework.
2. Falsifying data in experimental results.
3. Personation, where a substitute takes an examination or test on behalf of the candidate. Both candidate and substitute may be guilty of an offence under these Regulations.
4. Bribery or attempted bribery of a person thought to have some influence on the candidate’s assessment.
5. Collusion to present joint work as the work solely of one individual.
6. Plagiarism, where the work or ideas of another are presented as the candidate’s own.
7. Other conduct calculated to secure an advantage on assessment.
8. Assisting in any of the above.

Some notes on what this means for students:

1. Copying another student’s work is an offence, whether from a copy on paper or from a computer file, and in whatever form the intellectual property being copied takes, including text, mathematical notation, and computer programs.

2. Taking extracts from published sources without attribution is an offence. To quote ideas, sometimes using extracts, is generally to be encouraged. Quoting ideas is achieved by stating an author’s argument and attributing it, perhaps by quoting, immediately in the text, his or her name and year of publication, e.g. “e = mc² (Einstein 1905)”. A reference section at the end of your work should then list all such references in alphabetical order of authors’ surnames. (There are variations on this referencing system which your tutors may prefer you to use.) If you wish to quote a paragraph or so from published work then indent the quotation on both left and right margins, using an italic font where practicable, and introduce the quotation with an attribution.

School of Computing, FLSC

Contract cheating

Contract cheating (also known as assessment outsourcing, commissioning or ghost writing) is when someone seeks out another party, or AI generator service, to produce work or buy an essay or assignment, either already written or specifically written for them or the assignment to submit as their own piece of work.

Contract cheating undermines the integrity of the academic process and devalues the qualifications awarded by the university. Students are reminded that academic integrity is a fundamental principle of our institution. Engaging in contract cheating not only impacts the individual’s academic record but also the reputation of the university.

Students are encouraged to seek support if they are struggling with their coursework. The university offers a range of resources, including academic counseling, tutoring services, and workshops on study skills and time management. Utilizing these resources can help students achieve their academic goals without resorting to dishonest practices.

Penalty:

• Failure in the Module: The student must re-register for the same module, and the re-registered module will be capped at a bare pass.
• Ineligibility to Continue on the Course: Where re-registration of the same module, or a suitable alternative, is not permissible, the student will not be able to continue on the course. Additionally, the following penalty will be applied to the student’s final award:
  • Undergraduate Honors: The student’s final classification will be reduced by one level.
  • Unclassified Bachelors: Downgraded to Diploma in Higher Education.
  • Foundation Degree: Distinction downgraded to Merit; Merit downgraded to Pass; Pass downgraded to Certificate in Higher Education.
  • Masters: Distinction downgraded to Merit; Merit downgraded to Pass; Pass downgraded to Postgraduate Diploma.

Reporting and Consequences:

Instances of contract cheating will be thoroughly investigated, and students found guilty will face the penalties outlined above. It is the responsibility of every student to ensure that their work is their own and to avoid situations that could lead to accusations of academic misconduct.

By adhering to these standards, students contribute to a fair and equitable academic environment, ensuring the value and recognition of their qualifications are maintained.

This module is assessed by coursework (70%). For the coursework, the students are required to develop an application based on detailed guidance on given specifications. Through the coursework students should be able to:

• Develop a Skin Care Product Sale System
• Describe the program
• Test the program with some sample data to demonstrate its behaviour
• Write a report to present the work
• Students are required to submit weekly assignment along with related research evidence
• The guideline for the Documentation/Development part is given below:
  • Components to be included are: cover page, and table of contents, figures and tables, footer.
  • The report must have an Introduction section with definite goals and objectives (approx. 400 words or more).
  • The report must have a Discussion and Analysis section in which students need to explain how the program was developed.

1. Scenario

WeCare is a local vendor that sells beauty and skin care products. It needs to maintain the details of the items available in the store. As to boost the sales, the store provides a ‘buy three get one free’ policy on the items sold.

The shop maintains information about the available products in a text file. An application needs to be developed which will read the text file and display all the products available. Then with each transaction, a note/invoice should be generated for the particular customer and should be written to a file along with the details of the
products involved in the transaction. The stock of the items should also be updated after each transaction. For example, if the shop had 10 Softskin Lotion, and if 3 of these Softskin Lotion is bought by a customer then the number (stock) should be changed to 6 as 1 product is provided free as the policy and customer gets 4 items. The txt file contains cost price to the shop so while displaying the product details during sales, the price should be selling price which is e.g. 200% mark up to the cost price. During restocking of the product, the price (if changed) and the stock count should be updated.

A sample format of the text file including the information about the product wholesale system is as follows:

Vitamin C Serum, Garnier, 200, 1000, France

Skin Cleanser, Cetaphil, 100, 280, Switzerland

Sunscreen, Aqualogica, 200, 700, India

*1^st column shows the product name, 2^nd column shows the brand name, 3^rd column shows the quantity available in the stock, 4^th column shows cost price per item in rupees, 5^th column shows the country of origin of the items.

Note: You can use your own format and add other information too.

A note/invoice should be generated for each transaction. When a product is sold, a note/vat invoice should be generated (as a .txt file) which must contain the product type, brand, quantity sold along with free ones, name of the customer, date of transaction and the total amount only calculated excluding free quantity. Also, if a customer decides to buy more than one type of product, then the amount should be added up for all types.

When the shop wants to restock the products from the supplier, a note/vat invoice should be generated which should include the product type, brand, quantity bought, name of the vendor/supplier, cost/rate of item, date of transaction and the total amount. If restock includes multiple types of products, a single invoice should be created for each transaction. Items should be updated in the original file on every restock.

* The format of the notes/invoices is up to you. But each file should have a unique name.

1. Algorithm

• An algorithm should be developed for the application where everything the program does should be taken into account. The algorithm should be described in steps, pseudocode, and flowcharts should also be included.

1. Data Structures

• The programming should be done using data structures and operations in Python for input/output, character and string processing, and data storage.
• It can use any primitive or complex data structures which might be necessary for holding the data (pairs, lists, strings, dictionaries, etc.)
• The choice of data structures must be specified in the report.

1. Program

• The program must work in a loop, displaying the available products and waiting for the administrator to enter details of the customers. The program should not close unless the administrator decides to do so.
• The program must check the input data, displaying error messages whenever unwanted data is entered, for example if some string value is entered where a numerical value is expected.
• The program must be implemented in a modular way with separate functions for the different operations such as input/output, reading files, generating invoices/notes, etc.

1. Description

• The program must be described in terms of its structure and behavior.
• It can be presented using text and structural charts, flowcharts or other diagrams as needed.
  • The report must have a Testing section with evidence (through appropriate screenshots) that has been carried out for the program.
  • The report must include a Conclusion section where they need to present their findings of the development and research (approx. 300 words).
• Demonstration of the project.
  • If any individual student is not able to justify his/her project, then the project will be kept under plagiarism.

NOTE: The technicality of the project will be judged during the demo and marked accordingly.

Marking Breakdown for Coursework
Criteria	Total Marks
1. Introduction	5
2. Algorithm	5
3. Pseudocode	5
4. Flowchart	5
5. Data Structures	5
6. Program
a. Correctness	10
b. Implementation (modularity, use of functions/classes)	10
c. Programming Style	10
d. Exception Handling	10
e. User interface/program usability	10
7. Testing	5
8. Conclusion	5
9. VIVA	10
10. Report Structure and Formatting	5
Total:	100

Milestone1(Week 9):

• Introduction
  • Explanation of project/concepts used
  • Aims and objectives of the projects
  • Technology used while doing coursework
• Data Structures
  • List primitive or complex data structures which might be necessary for holding the data (pairs, lists, strings, dictionaries, etc.)
  • Those data structures must be described along with their examples.
• Program
  • Create a text file (.txt) that contains the details of the product wholesale system. The structure and content should follow the information provided in the question paper.
  • In your Python program, write the necessary code to open and read the contents of the text file you created.
  • After reading the data from the text file, store it in a suitable Python collection (e.g., a list or a dictionary), depending on how the data is structured.
  • Once the data is stored in the Python collection, display the product information in the Python shell in a readable format.

Milestone2(Week 11):

• Algorithm
  • Write an algorithm for the Python program you developed. The algorithm should include all the steps necessary to complete the task
• Flowchart
  • Draw a flowchart based on your algorithm that include all the steps necessary to complete the task
• Program
  • Complete the entire program that executes according to the question paper without dividing it into separate modules