MDHACKSHACKS

Overwrite/Existing. Part 1
Overwrite: Enter students names to input into text file
Enter in students names that were present
Display present and absent students. Also display students that aren't supposed to be in the class
Students text file

Inspiration

We wanted to build something on education, and then one of our team members came up with the idea to build an attendance system, that could be later expanded upon to google meet so teachers can easily mark their students present.

What it does

At first the user is prompted with a message to use an existing file or overwrite the current file to write a new one. Overwriting a file will write the names that the user inputs into a new students text file while choosing "existing" will grab the text file with the students name written in it. Then the user is prompted to enter the names of students that were present during the class. Using the information from the students text file the program then calculates which students were absent, present, and not part of the class.

How we built it

We programmed this program using repl.it

Challenges we ran into

We were faced with multiple exceptions that we didn't recognize so we have to do a lot of researching to be able to find the problem and solve it.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of being able to solve different errors that we haven't run into and get our code to successfully compile and run.

What we learned

We've learned about reading and writing to files using Java, it was a new concept that we wanted to experiment with that went pretty well.

What's next for MDHACKSHACKS

We want to later expand it to turn it into some type of GUI that can then be used by google meets to make attendance easier for teachers in this world of online learning.