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dharanigowthamsampath/student-management
Student Management System - C Project for Learning
This is a teaching scaffold for C beginners: a single Student Management System split into 120 tiny, independently assigned functions, each solved as its own GitHub issue and PR. It's aimed at people who've never used Git/GitHub for real collaboration and want to practice the fork-branch-PR-CI-merge loop on bite-sized, pre-tested problems rather than build an actual student management system.
The one-function-per-file structure (src/issue_XXX.c) means each contribution is small, independently testable, and easy to review — good for a cohort of beginners submitting PRs in parallel without stepping on each other. CI (test.yml) runs the test suite automatically on every PR, so learners get fast, objective pass/fail feedback instead of relying on a human to check their work. Protecting student.h, globals.c, and test.c from edits is a sensible guardrail that keeps beginners from breaking the shared contract while they focus on just their function.
A global mutable database (globals.c) shared across all 120 functions is exactly the pattern you'd tell a junior dev to avoid in real code — it teaches a workflow but not good C design. Splitting one program into 120 single-function files is an artificial structure that doesn't resemble how actual modules, headers, or APIs get organized; students learn PR mechanics, not software architecture. There's no mention of sanitizers (ASan/UBSan) or valgrind in a project full of raw pointers and manual memory handling, which is a missed teaching opportunity in a C project specifically. Two stars and a 'WORKFLOW_VALIDATION_REPORT.md' sitting in the repo root suggest this is early-stage and possibly used by a very small or single cohort, not a proven curriculum.