You were just hired as an IT Specialist for Smalltown School District. Your firs

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You were just hired as an IT Specialist for Smalltown School District. Your first assignment is to review a problem area& in student records processing. It seems that the program currently used to compute student grade point averages and class rankings runs terribly slow and as a result end of year reports are habitually late. Your are asked to come up with a list of items that should be checked in order to determine if a modification to code is in order. The IT department head is asking you to do this without the opportunity to actually see the current application/programs in use. What questions would you ask about the current code? What areas of code would you look at? What would you need to know about the student data?

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The major questions to ask

1) What is your grading policies?

2) How many people will get a particular grade in the course?

3) What is the minimum passing criteria for the code

What areas of code would you look at

1) The code should be optimum hence it should be using nested if-else for faster execution

2) It doesn't declare some big memory which takes a lot of time in updating the values

Code for the program:

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