Project 5: Student Grade Tracker | Advanced C++

Advanced C++ — Project 5: Student Grade Tracker

Build a Student Grade Tracker

Put your knowledge of structs, vectors, file I/O, and algorithms to work in one complete program. You'll build a grade tracker that stores student records, writes them to a file, reads them back, finds the top scorer, and prints a summary.

YOUR TASK

Write a program that does all of the following:

Defines a Student struct with fields string name, int grade, and string subject.
Stores 4 hardcoded students in a vector<Student> (use the values in the expected output below).
Writes all students to a file called grades.txt, one per line in the format:
Name | Grade | Subject
Reads the file back and prints each line to the console prefixed with Student:
Finds the student with the highest grade and prints their name prefixed with Top student:
Prints Total students: 4 at the end.

Hint 1 — File writing

#include <fstream>

ofstream outFile("grades.txt");
for (auto& s : students)
outFile << s.name << " | " << s.grade << " | " << s.subject << "\n";
outFile.close();

Hint 2 — File reading

ifstream inFile("grades.txt");
string line;
while (getline(inFile, line))
cout << "Student: " << line << endl;
inFile.close();

Hint 3 — Finding the top student

Student top = students[0];
for (auto& s : students) {
if (s.grade > top.grade)
top = s;
}
cout << "Top student: " << top.name << endl;

Hint 4 — Student data to use

Use these four students exactly so your output matches:

{"Alice", 88, "Math"}
{"Bob", 95, "Science"}
{"Carol", 76, "History"}
{"Dave", 82, "English"}

Expected Output:

Student: Alice | 88 | Math
Student: Bob | 95 | Science
Student: Carol | 76 | History
Student: Dave | 82 | English
Top student: Bob
Total students: 4

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