Question

Write a program that reads the student information from a tab separated values (tsv) file. The program then creates a text file that records the course grades of the students. Each row of the tsv file contains the Last Name, First Name, Midterm1 score, Midterm2 score, and the Final score of a student. A sample of the student information is provided in StudentInfo.tsv. Assume the number of students is at least 1 and at most 20. Assume also the last names and first names do not contain whitespaces.

The program performs the following tasks:
Read the file name of the tsv file from the user.
Open the tsv file and read the student information.
Compute the average exam score of each student.
Assign a letter grade to each student based on the average exam score in the following scale:
A: 90 =< x
B: 80 =< x < 90
C: 70 =< x < 80
D: 60 =< x < 70
F: x < 60
Compute the average of each exam.
Output the last names, first names, exam scores, and letter grades of the students into a text file named report.txt. Output one student per row and separate the values with a tab character.
Output the average of each exam, with two digits after the decimal point, at the end of report.txt. Hint: Use the precision sub-specifier to format the output.

Answer 1

A Python program can be written to read student information from a TSV file, compute averages and letter grades, and output this information alongside exam averages to a text file named report.txt.

Step-by-step explanation:

To address the task of reading student information from a TSV file and writing their course grades to a report.txt file, we can create a Python program. The program will perform several actions, including requesting the file name from the user, opening the file to read data, computing averages, assigning letter grades, and writing the formatted output.

Here's an overview of how the Python script might look:

1. Prompt the user for the TSV file name and open the file.
2. Read the rows of the file, split by tabs, to get each student's information.
3. Calculate the average exam score for each student.
4. Assign a letter grade based on the average score using the provided grading scale.
5. Compute the average for each exam among all students.
6. Write the last names, first names, exam scores, letter grades, and exam averages to report.txt, formatted with tabs and precision for numerical values.

The letter grades are assigned as follows:

• A: 90 up to and including 100
• B: 80 to less than 90
• C: 70 to less than 80
• D: 60 to less than 70
• F: Less than 60