Process/Protocol/Interface Description for getStudentCourses

Name/Header: getStudentCourses(studentID, studentCourses)

Processing Narrative: This module accesses the University's Student Information Database and returns a list of all courses taken by a particular student (specified by studentID) in order taken from earliest to latest. The grade received for each course is also included. A blank grade means that the student is currently enrolled in that course.

Input: studentID

Output: studentCourses - a (100 x 15) character array (see below). The invoking module must provide an address (pointer) to this array.

Global Data Used: None

Restrictions/Limitations: There is a maximum of 100 courses returned for any given student

studentCourses array:

• Each row contains information about one class taken by the student
• Columns 1-5 contain the department abbreviation (as in the schedule of classes and left justified)
• Columns 6-13 contain the course number (as in the schedule of classes and left justified)
• Columns 14-15 contain the grade received (one of A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C, C-, D+, D, D-, F, CR, NC, I, U, W, or SP and it is left justified)

For example:

C	O	M	P	2	2	2				C	+
A	R	T		1	2	4	A			B
. . .
C	O	M	P	3	9	6	S	E	L