code_Report.md

This Program should be run on Apache Netbean

This project calculate GPA for a particular semester, we clearly used Object Oriented programming concept in the implementation of this program.

We define two classes, Semester and Course class.

Semester Class

Properties:
    Courses: Array of Course class
    GPA: contain GPA value
    totalGradePoint: contain sum of courses grade Point
    totalUnitLoad: contain sum of courses unit Load

Methods:
    getSemesterGPA(): 
        return the division of getTotalQualityPoint() by getTotalUnitLoad()
    getTotalQualityPoint():
        return the total quality points of all courses
    getTotalUnitLoad():
         return the total unit Loads of all courses 

Course class

Properties:
    courseName: contain course name
    unitLoad: contain course unit load
    score: contain the score obtained in course

Methods:
    getQualityPoint():
        return the product of course unit Load and grade numeric equivalent e.g A = 5

    getUnitLoad():
        To obey data abstraction, we chose to return the unit load by this function.

    getGradePoint():
        return the grade numeric equivalent of score e.g 70 is assigned A and A is 5.

Main function

    We import the Scanner class to get the name, score and unit
    load of course. Create an array of Course class to contain the
    courses(8 courses).

    We loop to get the name, score and unit load of courses from user
    and declare a new course class to be stored within the next index
    of the courses array. 
    
    Then we displayed the semester GPA by calling the semester class
    getSemesterGPA method inside a System.out.printf() as argument.

Bugs

1. PROBLEM: The output for the double GPA variable was displaying a 
   six decimal place float but we wanted 2.

   SOLUTION: We used System.out.printf(), which allow us to specify
   number of decimals we want with %.2f, and passing the variable
   as an argument to the System.out.printf() function

Debugging

We added breakpoint at line 9, 25 and 28 in the main function of GPAcalculator class. Stepping into them and their analyzing their implementation and variable, to ensure that every thing works fine.