Computing
CPT111: Java Programming
Semester 1, 2024-25
Coursework 3: Programming Project – A Simple Quiz System
Read carefully — no dispensation will be given for lack of awareness of the rules
Assignment type This is a group programming assignment. You are required to work as a
group of 4 to 5 students, which will be allocated randomly.
(You should be able to find your group members’ information from
Learning Mall (LM), and should contact the instructors if there is any
problem.)
Weighing Total marks available: 100, accounting for 30% of overall module marks.
Release date 1pm CST Wednesday 6 November 2023
Due date 11:59pm CST Sunday 1 December 2024
Learning outcomes
(A) Understand and appreciate the principles of using object-oriented programming techniques
for the construction of professional robust, maintainable programs deployed to meet real
world business goals;
(B) Design, write, compile, test, debug and execute object-oriented program using an Integrated
Development Environment (IDE);
(C) Effectively develop object-oriented programs as a member or a leader of a software
development team with continuous development strategy supported by AI technology;
(D) Implement object-oriented programming to represent, display, and manipulate data while
mitigating security risks;
(E) Evaluate legal, social, environmental, ethical, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual property
issues related to object oriented program development;
(F) Apply knowledge of engineering management principles, commercial context, project and
change management in object-oriented program.
Submission platform Each group is required to submit an electronic copy of your assignment
via LM.
You are allowed ONE submission only. It is your responsibility to upload
the correct document.
Late submissions Penalties will apply for any work submitted after the due date unless you
have obtained a formal extension prior to the date for submission. The
penalty applied will be 5% of the available marks for the assignment for
each working day or part thereof that the assignment is late. The penalty
will be capped at five working days (120 hours) from the assignment
deadline. Work submitted after five working days will receive a grade of
zero.
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Submission
confirmation
We strongly advise you to double check that you have submitted the
correct document / final version of your answer.
Submission of incorrect file
If you have submitted the incorrect file, you should email the correct file
to the instructors prior to the deadline. Submitting the incorrect file can
result in failure.
Special consideration Requests for an extension due to illness, misadventure, or other
extenuating circumstances beyond your control will only be considered
via a formal application for special consideration through e-Bridge.
Report format ALL answers must be written in English.
The report must:
• be submitted as a .doc, .docx (do not submit PDF or Apple Pages)
• contain headings and subheadings
• have 3 cm margins
• use a legible font (e.g., Calibri, Arial or Times New Roman)
• be presented in 11 point font size with 1.5 line spacing
• be paginated
Plagiarism and
academic misconduct
It is assumed that you are thoroughly familiar with the policies of XJTLU
regarding academic misconduct and plagiarism. Ignorance of the rules is
not an acceptable defence against an allegation of academic misconduct.
There are no excuses for engaging in plagiarism. Assignment answers
will be checked for plagiarism. Impermissible similarities between student
answers (current and former) can be detected by academic integrity
software and by instructor, and will be referred to the School’s Examination
Officer for investigation. Penalties will follow those of the University’s
Academic Integrity Policy on e-Bridge and can ranged from capped marks
to expulsions from the university.
For use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI), see below.
Use of Generative
Artificial Intelligence
(AI)
Simple Editing Assistance
For this assessment task, you may use standard editing software but
not generative AI. You are permitted to use the full capabilities of the
standard editing software, such as Microsoft Office suite, Grammarly, and
Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for coding. If the use of
generative AI such as ChatGPT is detected, it will be regarded as serious
academic misconduct and subject to the penalties mentioned above.
Tips • Read the questions carefully.
• Write succinctly, and avoid repetition.
• Avoid being overly descriptive.
• Remember to save/back up your work regularly. XJTLU provides all
students free access to XJTLU Box. It may be prudent to save your
work to your XJTLU account so that you can access it from multiple
devices in case you encounter hardware issues.
• You are encouraged to post administrative/procedural questions
about the assignment on the LM Q&A Forum. The instructors will
answer for the benefit of all students.
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Coursework 3: Programming Project – A Simple Quiz System
The purpose of this assignment is to design and develop an application that can be used to facilitate
educational quizzes, allowing users to select topics of interests, take quizzes related to those topics,
and view their quiz scores on a personal dashboard. The primary aim is to create a user-friendly
and interactive platform that enhances the learning experience through topic selection and question
assignment.
1 Functional requirements
As this is a programming assignment, not a software design one, here is a skeleton to guide you in
the creative part.
1.1 At startup
• The program should load data, such as user information, questions, etc., from selected files,
and store it in memory (using relevant variables and data structure).
– You may assume that all user information are stored in a comma-separated values (CSV)
file1
, as illustrated in resources user.csv, where the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd columns of the
file represent the user id, user name, and password of the user, respectively.
– You can assume that all questions are stored in some XML files, as illustrated in folder:
resources questionsBank. A Java class ReadQuestions has been provided to
you in the src folder demonstrating how the questions can be read from the XML files
into the memory, and the Javadoc of the classes used can be found under the folder
repositories javadoc xjtlu.cpt111.assignment.quiz.
Note: You need to add the library:
repositories xjtlu cpt111 xjtlu.cpt111.assignment.quiz
0.0.1 xjtlu.cpt111.assignment.quiz-0.0.1.jar
to the class path (of your IDE) first before running the ReadQuestion class.
• The program should:
– show information about data loaded.
– validate the questions read. That is, in our case, a question is valid if it
(i) falls into a topic (either new or an existing one)
(ii) has a question statement,
(iii) has more than one answer available for selection, and
(iv) has one-and-only-one answer.
– show a menu that present a list of interactions possible.
• Besides, you may need to add more questions (under different topics) to the question bank
yourself.
1CSV file: a text file format that uses commas to separate values, and newlines to separate records.
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1.2 Menu — General behaviour
The application should support, at least, the following functions.
• User registration and authentication
• Topic selection
– The topics available should be based on the input from the questions.
• Quiz taking
– You can decide the number of questions in a quiz. However, each quiz should contains
questions at different level of difficulties.
– The questions should be shown to the user one-by-one!
– The order of answers available for selection should be shuffled every time before a
question is shown to the user.
• The score of the quiz should show to the user immediately after the quiz has been finished
and the results should be saved into a score file
– You should design the structure (and format) of the score file on your own, and make
sure that you can read its content back when the program start!
• User dashboard for viewing quiz results of each topic and history of the previous 3 tests
attempted.
• Leaderboard for showing the names of the users with the highest score in each topic.
1.3 Technical requirements
The objective of this assignment is for you to program a simple quiz system so it should be interactive
in the form of showing text to the user and requesting their answer and data update through user
input as well as reading data from different file types. If you fail to do so, your submission will
automatically attract a penalty of 50%.
1.4 Concept requirements
Your code must feature and make use of the following elements.
• All your code must be divided in relevant/meaningful functions and classes.
• Declare/define and use variables with the appropriate data types and meaningful names.
• Input will always be converted into proper data type.
• The program should prevent crash in any situation, thus make sure you test your program
properly.
1.5 Constraints
Dependencies Using libraries or modules that are NOT covered in this course is strictly prohibited
and will result in zero (0) marks automatically in this assignment.
Internet connectivity The application is assumed to be run locally on a computer; hence no internet
connection is required.
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2 Important reminder
Documentation is also a critically important part of your software engineering. Your use of comment
(in Java source file) will be graded.
You must write the final version of the program totally on your own. Sophisticated plagiarism
detection system are in operation, and they are pretty good at catching copying! Re-read the policy
on the university home page, and note the University’s tougher policy this year regarding cheating.
Using libraries or modules that are NOT covered in this course is strictly prohibited and will
result in zero (0) marks automatically in this assignment.
Your programming style (how clearly and how well you speak a programming language, i.e.,
Java in this course) is what will be graded. Correct functioning of your program is necessary but
not sufficient; you must use the concepts covered in class and meet all requirements stated in this
assignment and as detailed in the marking rubrics (Section 4).
3 Submission requirements
Your assignment has to submit to Learning Mall (LM). You should submit the following:
A. A report (written using Microsoft Word) that includes the following items:
1. A cover sheet stating the student number of your team members.
2. A description of your project
3. Information and explanation of how you add, store and handle users’ data (including the
data structure that you used to store users’ data in memory), the algorithm that you used
to identify the user names in the leaderboard, how to handle problems that appear in the
questions (e.g., questions with more than one correct answers) and other parts of the program,
etc.
4. Tests performed to verify the correctness of the program.
5. Printouts/screen capture of your program’s execution and tests. (This can be incorporated
into Items 3 and 4 above)
6. Peer evaluation form (Section A). (This will be used to adjust the final mark of individual
students according to his/her contributions to the project.)
B. ALL Java source codes and resource files (e.g., images, questions and users files, etc.) that are
required to run the application.
You should compresses all files into a single “.zip” file before submission. You should NOT include
any files from the repositories folder or any files that are NOT relevant to the application into
the submission file. Failure to follow this requirement will result in mark deduction.
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4 Marking
Commenting and naming
convention (10 pts)
Everything is
appropriately
commented and
every variable is
appropriately named
A few comments
or variable names
are missing or
inappropriate
More than a few
comments are missing
or inappropriate but
more than 50% of
the elements are
commented; OR more
than a few variables
are inappropriate
There is less than 50%
commented OR more
than a few variables
are not properly
named
Prevent crashes (10 pts)
Program does not crash in any
situation
No program crash
Minor error –
program crash for
some very uncommon
case
Major error – program
crash in case of
unexpected type
of user input OR
program crashes
frequently
Crashes most of the
time (or always) when
tested OR circumvent
the requirement to
handle wrong kind of
user input
Appropriate data structure
and variables (10 pts)
Users and scoring
information is stored in
memory in a relevant way
and appropriately typed
variables
Users and scoring
information are
stored in memory in
a relevant way and
with appropriate data
types
Used more than
necessary variables
OR a few variables are
not typed properly
Does not use proper
data structure OR
data type to most
variable (more than
once)
NO data structure
(only simple data
types used) OR more
than one error
Loading data (10 pts)
Load data in memory and
format data in file properly
No issue found when
loading data into
memory
A small number of
data is not loaded (or
improperly) or other
minor error
One type of data
for all items is not
loaded or the file is
not formated properly
or other major error
Data is not loaded or
more than one major
error
Menu (10 pts)
Menu shows the required list
of options, and execute the
right the functionality based
on user input, and show
proper message to user in case
of any problem
The menu is shown
correctly and all
options can be
selected without any
error
Some options are not
shown to the user OR
some options cannot
be selected OR any
other minor error
Menu is not shown
“infinitely” until the
exit option is selected
OR any other major
error
There is no menu OR
it is shown only once
OR more than one
major error
Show question (10 pts)
Show the information about
a question and with answers
shuffled
The questions are
shown according to
the topic selected and
with different level
of difficulties and
answers shuffled
The questions are
shown according to
the topic selected and
with answers shuffled,
but most questions
are of the same level
of difficulties
The questions are
shown according to
the topic selected but
without shuffled the
answers or different
level of difficulties
The questions are
shown arbitrary
Scoring (10 pts)
Accumulate the score
correctly w.r.t. to users’
input
The score is updated
correctly in all cases
The score is updated
correctly in most cases
but not in all cases
The score is updated
correctly occasionally
The score is updated
incorrectly in most
cases or not update at
all
User dashboard (10 pts)
User dashboard shows the
user’s achievement in each
topic and history of the
previous 3 tests correctly
All information are
shown correctly,
especially after scores
update
One or two
information are
shown incorrectly,
or with some minor
error
Most information are
not shown correctly
OR with major error
Several major errors
OR no information is
shown on the user
dashboard
Leaderboard (10 pts)
Leaderboard shows the name
of user with the highest score
in each topic correctly
All information are
shown correctly,
especially after scores
update
One or two
information are
shown incorrectly,
or with some minor
error
Most information are
not shown correctly
OR with major error
Several major errors
OR no information
is shown on the
leaderboard
Save data (10 pts)
Save data to file with proper
formats
All data are saved in a
proper format
A small number of
data is not saved (or
improperly) or other
minor error
One type of data
for all items are not
saved OR file is not
formated properly OR
it overrides original
data OR other major
error
Several major errors
or there is no saved
information in the
new file
Criteria
Ratings
10 to > 8pts 8 to > 5pts 5 to > 0pts 0 pts
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A Peer evaluation form
Individual contribution for Group Programming Assignment
Name Student Id Task(s) Contribution
(%) Signature
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